Object data
wood and brass
height 8.7 cm × width 30.8 cm × depth 31 cm
Rijkswerf Rotterdam
Model of a 20-cm Mortar on a Pivot
Rotterdam, c. 1834
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1372
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a pivot undercarriage for a 20 cm mortar, mounted on a base representing the deck of a ship.
Mortar and bed are both missing. The slide is slightly inclined and has rollers underneath, to ease the movement on the pivoting rails on the circle on deck; it has a brass pivot bolt.
The mortar and carriage of NG-MC-792, which were found separately and are possibly model number 46 mentioned in the additional list of 1889 (now NG-MC-1889-46), also fit model NG-MC-1372 perfectly. Model NG-MC-792 is an identical model with a cross section of a ship. The model represents a gunboat mortar on a bed.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 141; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1372
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a 20-cm Mortar on a Pivot, Rotterdam, c. 1834', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (ed.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245177 (accessed 10 April 2021).