Object data
wood and brass
model: height 16.5 cm × length 19 cm × width 17 cm
packaging capsule: height 22.5 cm × width 82.5 cm × depth 22.5 cm
Rijkswerf Rotterdam
Model of a Capstan with a Winch
Rotterdam, United Kingdom, c. 1830
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-197
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a capstan, mounted on a base representing a wooden deck.
The capstan has a winch in the head and four pawls in the heel to prevent it from turning back. The head has a loose wooden cover ornamented with a star and is fixed to the brass spindle, which is set in the reinforced deck with a square heel. The barrel has a toothed wheel beneath the head, which is driven by two cranks with pinions inside the head. The barrel thus turns beneath the head. The barrel has six whelps.
This type of capstan had already been in use on British ships,1 when Lieutenant Captain J.W. Moll proposed to introduce them for use on tenders (aviso brigs) in the Dutch Navy in 1834.2
Scale (estimate) 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 197; J.H. Harland, Capstans and Windlasses: An Illustrated History of their Use at Sea, Piermont, NY, 2003, p. 50; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 72-75
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a Capstan with a Winch, Rotterdam, c. 1834', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244009
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