Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Rigged hollowed-out block model of a single-masted flat-bottomed cannon boat, incomplete. Round bow and stern, one port in the bow, two in the stern, four on the sides. The deck is detailed with a windlass, a chimney for the galley, hatches, a cabin, a compass house, two pumps, ten cannonballs and two anchors. Around a bulwark, four forks on the turn and four poles on both sides for a raised bulwark. Below deck not worked out. Wide rudder with decorated rudder head and wooden helm over the deck. Flat keel, one bark timber, leeboards. The model is rigged with a single-masted gaff rig with furled sails: the mast has a topmast, jib and topsail, staysail and jib, mainsail on gaff and boom, tricolor pennant. Scale 1:30 (according to Obreen).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description