Object data
brass
height 20.4 cm × diameter 10.8 cm
anonymous
Rain Cap for the Elevating Screw of a Carronade
United States of America, 1826
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-724
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rain cap for the elevating screw of a carronade.
Cylindrical body with a round top and trumpet-shaped foot, which has a cutaway for the breech and two holes for bolts with which it was attached to the carronade. Around the body a large ring is placed, which seals off the bolts from the rain, but can be raised easily in order to reach the bolts.
In 1825, Julius Constantijn Rijk (1787-1854) obtained this rain cap during his stay in North America in the sloop of war Pallas.1 In 1827 he carried out some experiments with rain caps of this type. Dutch rain caps of the period were made of copper and were flatter at the top and had a hexagonal base (NG-MC-796).
Literature
J.N. Calten, Leiddraad bij het onderrigt in de zee-artillerie, Delft 1832, p. 173, pl. VII, figs. 26-27; L.K. Turk, Gegevens en tekeningen van geschut en munitie, verstrekt op verschillende schepen en sloepen van de Koninklijke Marine, s.l. (c. 1848), manuscript in NSM, inv. no. A.0356(0006); J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 724; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 205, 212
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Rain Cap for the Elevating Screw of a Carronade, United States of America, 1826', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244539
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