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

Object number: NG-MC-277

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. Thirty-five gun ports are indicated by white frames in three tiers; some are damaged or missing. The forecastle and quarterdeck are outlined by ribbands with square hances. The sheer rises slightly towards the stern. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead, part of a beakhead platform and a black knighthead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail, quarter galleries or a rudder. The hull is rather flat and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 90-gun ship of the line Chattam (Chatham), 195 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1799-1800.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 277. Chattam was converted to a floating battery in 1809 and used to counter the British attack on Zeeland. In 1814 Chattam was a store vessel in Flushing and was plundered by soldiers, in 1823 the ship was sold for breaking up.²²A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 2.

Scale (derived) 1:55.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 277

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 90-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1799', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053594