Marta Domínguez Delmás & Rosa Ana Vázquez Ruiz de Ocenda; Dendrochronological research on ship models NG-MC-312, NG-MC-315, NG-MC-317, NG-NM-88 (2016)

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-317

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. Fourteen gun ports are indicated by white frames situated on one continuous deck. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. Two wales and the sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, and a black knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 40-gun frigate Phoenix, 160 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1805-06.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 317. Phoenix was renamed Jason in 1808 and Koningin in 1811.²²HNA 1.01.47.36 Admiraliteitscolleges, Losse Aanwinsten, inv. no. 17, Genealogie Asmus.

Scale (derived) approx. 1:44.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 317; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 134-35

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 40-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1806', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053630