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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Hatch cover from a modern amateur-made model of a Dutch sailing cargo schokker. On the underside of the acommodation hatch cover "J.Ridderhof Zierikzee 1928" is inscribed.
CA: AAB.
A modern exhibition-style model of a Dutch sailing cargo ?schokker?. The model has been carved from a solid block, to which the deck and accommodation has been added. It is fully rigged with sails and a working anchor and windlass are located on the cramped foredeck. This design of vessel has been in use since the 17th century mainly for fishing in the North Sea and the Zuiderzee but since circa 1900, on the Schedt and the Waddenzee in the Netherlands. The distinctive hull shape and design of the rig have been copied in the past by other countries, the most common being the use of the flat bottomed hull and leeboards which can be seen on the Thames sailing barges. The most distinctive feature of this type is the straight stem which can rake at an angle of over 45 degrees, through which the anchor chain was run over a large sheave.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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