Object data
wood and brass
model: height 76 cm × length 80 cm × width 15 cm
packaging capsule: height 60 cm × width 84 cm × depth 20.5 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Pilot Cutter
Flushing, 1851 - 1852
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the taffrail: Vlissingen Loods.Kotter / Nº 9.
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-515
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden block model of a cutter, mounted on a brass stand.
The model has a straight, sharp cutter bow and a counter stern, the taffrail is decorated with carvings of foliage and a shell. Below the stern a round-headed rudder is indicated, with a brass hand tiller on deck. On the single flush deck one skylight and a companionway are specified. Among the detailed fittings are winches and pumps. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends, only one sheer rail is indicated. The hull has a sharp S-bottom. The rigging consists of a single mast with a topmast, a very long boom and gaff, and a jib boom which can be slid in and out with a rack and a winch.
Both the pilot cutter and the model were built in Flushing from 1851 to 1852.1
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 515
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Pilot Cutter, Flushing, 1851 - 1852', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244328
(accessed 25 April 2024 12:57:00).