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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A modern amateur model of a Dutch sailing cargo bom ?De Vrouw Hendriena' (1836). The model is built plank-on-frame to which decks and accommodation have been added. The hull is painted white below the waterline with the rest of the hull, deck, and superstructure finished in naturally varnished wood. The hull is very square in section with a flat bottom and rounded and bluff bow and stern. The hull is shallow draughted and as such requires two large leeboards, which can be lowered into the water, to prevent leeway or being blown sideways by the wind. It has a large rubbing strake running from bow to stern over which is rigged eight wooden fenders. The model is single masted and fully rigged with a full suite of sails including a gaff mainsail, the upper yard of which is curved, and two headsails, foresail and jib, together with a masthead pennant and an ensign from the rudder head. The bowsprit can be run in and out when not in use. All three sails have been stitched to indicate sail clothes and are complete with reefing points.
Noticeable fittings include a pair of large wooden hinged leeboards painted green and reinforced with metal strapping, a large windlass together with a pair of anchors and a rope cable, a water barrel on chocks, and a hatch cover for the forecastle. There is a large cargo hatch amidships with removable wooden boards (eight in number), all inscribed with roman numerals. Immediately aft the cargo hatch is the living accommodation with a raised companionway on deck, four windows in the stern, and a small skylight on the deck. The areas around the stern cabin, the stern post and the rudder (which is fitted with a metal tiller) are highly decorated. There is a red pendant flying from the top of the mainmast and a white silk flag rigged on the rudder head at the stern.
CA: AAB.
Full hull model of the 'De Vrouw Hendriena' (1836), a Dutch cargo bom (coastal/river craft). Model is decked, equipped and rigged, with sails set. Name and year "18 De Vrouw Hendiena 36" on stern. "I2, "II", "III", "IIII", "V", "VI", "VII", "VIII" on hatch covers.
Scale: Unknown. A plank on frame model of the Dutch sailing cargo vessel ?De Vrouw Hendriena (1836), fully rigged with sails, mounted on a pair of wooden crutches. It is complete with a full suit of sails including a gaff main, foresail and jib, together with a masthead pennant and an ensign from the rudder head. The hull is shallow draughted and as such requires the use of two large leeboards, which can be lowered into the water, to prevent leeway or being blown sideways by the wind.
caption: Botter - starboard broadside
caption: Botter - port three quarter view
caption: Botter - starboard quarter view
caption: Dutch cargo bom - port broadside
caption: Dutch cargo bom - bow three quarter
caption: Dutch cargo bom - stern quarter
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | De Vrouw Hendriena 1836 Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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