Model of a Lifeboat
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Rigged frame model of a single-banked lifeboat of six oars, the guns and anchor are missing. It is a clinker-built sharp-sterned sloop, with curved bowsprit and straight, slightly falling stern. The skin is painted white. It has a double skin, with buoyancy tanks attached in the inner skin; five hatches, an open cabin, a small foredeck and aft deck. The wide rudder has no tiller but a steering quadrant, of which the tiller ropes are missing. The model is equipped with six oars, two boat hooks, two round lifebuoys. It is rigged with sails, the main mast with a lug sail and a jib, the mizzen with a small triangular sail with boom. Scale 1:10.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description