Object data
wood, brass, rope, textile, leather and paint
model: height 65 cm × length 89 cm × width 17.2 cm
packaging capsule: height 79 cm × width 99 cm × depth 21.5 cm
Adriaan Rosel
Model of a Lifeboat
Netherlands, Cowes, c. 1870 - c. 1876
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1197-2
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rigged frame model of a six-oared, single-banked lifeboat, the gun and grapnel are missing.
Clinker-built double-ended launch or whaleboat with a curved raked stem and a straight, slightly raked stern. The planking is painted white. It has a double hull, the inner planking containing buoyancy chambers in the sides. It has five thwarts, an open cockpit, and a small cuddy fore and aft. The broad rudder has a steering quadrant instead of a hand tiller, the tackle is missing. The model has six oars, two boat hooks and two round buoys. The model is rigged with sails, the rig consisting of a mainmast with lugsail and foresail, the mizzen with a small triangular sail with a boom.
At the Werkmanstentoonstelling in The Hague in 1876, Adriaan Rosel obtained a silver medal for his models. This model was mentioned.
In 1865, the Dutch Navy ordered two lifeboats from John White, which were tested in Flushing. They were henceforth adopted as lifeboats C1 and C2 of the Dutch Navy. This model represents lifeboat C2, which was 8.28 metres long and had a 5-cm gun.
Scale 1:10.
Literature
B.J. Tideman, Memoriaal van de Marine, bevattende opgaven betrekkelijk de afmetingen, constructie, ... van Nederlandsche oorlogsschepen en omtrent enige havens, dokken, sluizen, werven enz., Amsterdam 1876-80, 2e Afd., pl. 19 fig. 6; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1197; W.E. May, The Boats of Men-of-War, London 1999 (1st ed. 1974), p. 73
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Adriaan Rosel, Model of a Lifeboat, Netherlands, 1865', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245011
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