Object data
wood, brass and rope
height 22.3 cm × width 80 cm × depth 29.5 cm
Rijkswerf Amsterdam
Model of Riding Bitts and Stoppers for a Chain Cable
Amsterdam, 1837
Inscriptions
- label: 627 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-627
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model showing part of two superimposed decks with riding bitts and two hatches on the upper deck. The aftermost hatch is the cable hatch. The portside of the model is for the chain cable, the riding bitts are sheathed in copper and the hatch is reinforced. The starboard side is for ordinary rope cable. There is a chain on the portside, which is secured with a stopper in the riding bitts and one in the hatch, both being compressors tied down with a tackle. Cable stoppers have been installed on deck.
This model shows the installation of riding bitts and chain stoppers on a 44-gun frigate.1
Scale (according to Obreen)2 1:20.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 627; J.H. Harland, Seamanship in the Age of Sail, London 1984, p. 239, fig. C
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Amsterdam, Model of Riding Bitts and Stoppers for a Chain Cable, Amsterdam, 1837', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244442
(accessed 16 April 2024 08:58:56).