Object data
wood and brass
height 10.5 cm × width 28 cm × depth 16.5 cm
height 17 cm × width 43 cm × depth 24.5 cm
Rijkswerf Amsterdam
Model of a Carriage for a 36-Pounder Carronade
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1839
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-752
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a carriage for a 36-pounder carronade.
The body, narrowing towards the front, consists of two cheeks with fittings and rings, with two very heavy wooden chocks in between. The cheeks have a semi-ellipsoidal cutaway below and a curved upper side. On the forward chock the lugs with the lug bolt are placed, on the hind chock the slot for the elevating screw. The carriage rests on friction chocks underneath the cheeks in order to reduce recoil. Two small rollers on a hinge at the back of the transom can be used as a jack with a traversing crow to lift the carriage off the friction chocks; it will then also rest on two larger rollers, set in front of the forward cross-beam, and will be easy to run out.
This model has much in common with model NG-MC-750. Especially on gunboats and small warships there was little room for the recoil of the gun. To reduce the recoil as much as possible one could use the friction of the deck, but this produced problems when running the gun out. With this type of gun carriage, these problems were solved. This model was ordered together with a full-size gun carriage for testing in 1839; it was an improvement of an earlier design by Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz (1797-1885), which had been tested on a gunboat.
Scale (according to Obreen)1 1:5.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 752; H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, p. 617; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 50
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Amsterdam, Model of a Carriage for a 36-Pounder Carronade, Amsterdam, 1839', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244566
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