Object data
wood, brass, iron, lead, glass, rope, leather, wool, animal hair and paint
model: height c. 56.5 cm × width c. 86 cm × depth c. 67 cm
packaging capsule: height 64 cm × width 99 cm × depth 73.5 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a 30-Pounder Gun on Deck
Flushing, 1839
Conservation
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 2002: restored
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, April 1839;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-803
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a 30-pounder gun and carriage on a ship’s deck, with all its accessories and a gun port.
The gun, made of wood and painted black, is 63.4 cm long and has a 34 mm calibre. Its button is flat from behind and has a breeching ring. The carriage, narrowing to the front, consists of two cheeks with four steps, connected by an inclined transom, a breast piece with a hinged outer part, and the axletrees. The stool bed connects the axletrees. The double wooden trucks all have the same diameter. Stool block and quoin were found separately and added to the model, as was the loading gear consisting of gunner’s ladle, two sponges (one wool, one pig’s bristle), scraper, wadhook and rammer. The deck on which the model stands is inclined, the ship’s side has diagonal trussing; the gun port has a rectangular glass light. Other accessories are three cannonballs in a rack against the ship’s wall, two rounds of canister in a similar rack, two budge barrels, a cartridge box, a powder horn, an artilleryman’s pouch, a priming iron and a linstock.
The model represents a gun emplacement on the main deck of a 72-gun ship of the line. It was ordered on 17 April 1837 from the Flushing Navy dockyard.2 On 16 April 1839 it was added to the Navy Model Room.3
Scale (according to Obreen)4 1:5.
Literature
J.N. Calten, Leiddraad bij het onderrigt in de zee-artillerie, Delft 1832, pp. 47, pp. 86 ff., pls. II-III, VII; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 803
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a 30-Pounder Gun on Deck, Flushing, 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.244617
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