Object data
iron, bronze, rope and paint
height 10.5 cm × width 21.5 cm × depth 11.5 cm
H.A. Gobius
Gunlock (Percussion)
Netherlands, France, 1832
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-705
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Right-hand percussion lock, painted black, to be mounted sideways against the vent patch with two bolts with wing nuts through the patch. The hammer turns at right angles to the gun; the lanyard is fastened to the shaft of the hammer and goes backwards through a ring. The hammer recoils on a stud. The vent is covered with an iron plate, which a notch in the axis of the hammer pulls back when the latter drops.
This design was proposed to the Académie française by Colonel Pârisot in 1833. Colonel Jure is also mentioned as the inventor of this gunlock. It became the regular percussion lock in the French Navy. In 1837, Captain Engelbertus Lucas (1785-1870) had this lock made under supervision of H.A. Gobius. It was not accepted by the Dutch Navy.
Literature
Preaux, Manuel de l’artification sur la fabrication des etoupilles-fulminantes, Rochefort 1837, fig. on p. 12; J.N. Calten, Leiddraad bij het onderrigt in de zee-artillerie. Met platen, Medemblik 1842 (2nd ed.), p. 340, pl. VI; J. Lafay, Aide-mémoire d’artillerie navale, Paris 1850, p. 176, pl. 31; J.A. Dahlgren, Naval Percussion Locks and Primers, Particularly those of the United States, Philadelphia 1853, pp. 24-25; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 705; J. Boudriot, ‘L’artillerie de mer de la Marine Française 1674-1856’, Neptunia 89-101 (1968-70), vol. 93, p. 6; S. Tucker, Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance in the Muzzle-Loading Era, Annapolis 1990, p. 33
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'H.A. Gobius, Gunlock (Percussion), Netherlands, 1832', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244520
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