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Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat
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Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat

Rijkswerf Rotterdam · c. 1835 · textile materials; rope; wood (plant material); brass (alloy); mica; silk

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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
Credit lineModel of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat. c. 1835. Rijkswerf Rotterdam. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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