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Djambi-class Corvette
The ''Djambi'' class was a class of steam corvettes of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised ''Djambi'', ''Zoutman'', ''Willem'', ''Leeuwarden'', ''Metalen Kruis'' and ''Curaçao''. Later two ships of a supposedly 'slightly revised' type were built, the Zilveren Kruis-class corvettes. Dutch Naval Plans in the 1850s Plan 1855 The Dutch naval plan 1855 called for a screw corvette of 250 hp as standard fighting warship for the East Indies. The steam corvettes of the ''Groningen'' class were the first of this type. They were designated as 'Steamships second class'. The ''Djambis were meant to supplement the number of these 'Steamships second class'. Corvettes and armored ships Even before the first of the Djambi class was launched, the whole class became technically obsolete when the French ironclad Gloire entered service in August 1860. The ''Djambis could not damage armored ships, and were slower than most of them. For service in the colonies however, many nations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rijkswerf (Amsterdam)
The Rijkswerf (Dutch: ''State shipyard'') in Amsterdam was a Dutch shipyard that build a significant amount of warships for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Predecessors of the Rijkswerf Shipyard of the Amsterdam Admiralty In the time of the Dutch republic naval affairs were handled by 5 local admiralties. The Admiralty of Amsterdam was the most important of these. The First Anglo-Dutch War proved the need for a professional navy. On 12 August 1655, the admiralty therefore got the entire western strip of Kattenburg island for the construction of an arsenal and ship yard. The arsenal was quickly constructed on the southern extremity of Kattenburg island in 1656. It was called 's Lands Zeemagazijn and now houses the National Maritime Museum. The rest of Kattenburg island stretches north along the Kattenburgerstraat. On the west side of this street the former yard is still enclosed by a very long seventeenth century building and a long old wall that reaches almost to the north end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flush Deck
Flush deck is a term in naval architecture. It can refer to any deck of a ship which is continuous from stem to stern. History The flush deck design originated with rice ships built in Bengal Subah, Mughal India (modern Bangladesh), resulting in hulls that were stronger and less leak-prone than stepped deck ships.. This was a key innovation in shipbuilding. The British East India Company duplicated the flush deck design in the 1760s, leading to significant improvements in seaworthiness of British ships during the Industrial Revolution. Two different meanings of "flush" "Flush deck" with "flush" in its generic meaning of "even or level; forming an unbroken plane", is sometimes applied to vessels, as in describing yachts lacking a raised pilothouse for instance. "Flush deck aircraft carrier" uses "flush deck" in this generic sense. "Flush deck" in its more specific maritime-architecture sense denotes (for instance) the flush deck destroyers described above: the flush decks are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Model Van Een 16 Cm Kanon Op Rolpaard, NG-MC-1133
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure. Models can be divided into physical models (e.g. a model plane) and abstract models (e.g. mathematical expressions describing behavioural patterns). Abstract or conceptual models are central to philosophy of science, as almost every scientific theory effectively embeds some kind of model of the physical or human sphere. In commerce, "model" can refer to a specific design of a product as displayed in a catalogue or show room (e.g. Ford Model T), and by extension to the sold product itself. Types of models include: Physical model A physical model (most commonly referred to simply as a model but in this context distinguished from a conceptual model) is a smaller or larger physical copy of an object. The object being modelled may be small ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pearl (1855)
HMS ''Pearl'' was a ''Pearl''-class 21-gun screw corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1855, displacing 2,187 tons. In September 1857, during the Indian Rebellion, 175 of the ship's crew were formed into ''Pearl''s Naval Brigade. The small force, armed largely with rifles, took part in several actions. It was accompanied in many of these by a similar force formed from the crew of . The ship was captained by Edward Southwell Sotheby from its commission in 1855. John Borlase replaced Sotheby, on the ships return from India in 1859, from 23 August 1859 to 18 June 1864 when the ship was paid off in Portsmouth. ''Pearl'' sailed around the East Indies and China and played a part in the Taiping Rebellion and the bombardment of Kagoshima during the Anglo-Satsuma War. ''North Star'' affair In May 1861 the ''Pearl'' was involved in an incident involving a British merchant ship named ''North Star'' and Chinese pirates. On 13 May, pirates in a junk attacked ''North Star'' off the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Vlissingen En Dudok Van Heel
Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel was a famous nineteenth-century Dutch machine factory. It built steam engines and machinery for the sugar industry and for maritime purposes, as well ships, rolling stock and large metal structures like the Moerdijk bridge and a floating dock. In 1871 it was reorganized to become the public company Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen. In a second reorganization in 1890, parts of it were saved and continued under the name Koninklijke Nederlandsche Fabriek van Werktuigen en Spoorwegmaterieel, renamed to Werkspoor in 1927. Van Vlissingen en Dudok van Heel Early years The company was founded as the 'Van Vlissingen' company in 1826. The founder was Paul van Vlissingen (1797–1876), who was also one of the founders of the Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (ASM). In 1828 Abraham Dudok van Heel (1802–1873) became a partner, and the name was changed to Fabriek van Stoom- en Andere Werktuigen, onder de firma Van Vlissingen & Dud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fijenoord
Fijenoord () was a shipbuilding company and machine factory in Rotterdam the Netherlands from 1823 to 1929. In 1929 it merged with Wilton to become Wilton-Fijenoord. Early years First ships and activities of the NSM In 1822 a number of businessmen and women and the engineer Gerhard Mauritz Roentgen. founded Van Vollenhoven, Dutilh en Co. In June 1823 ''De Nederlander'', the first Dutch steamboat (with English engines) started its service, which would become a line between Rotterdam and Antwerp. In 1824 the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij (NSM, but also NSBM) was founded and succeeded to Van Vollenhoven, Dutilh en Co. Roentgen became one of its two executives. NSM was primarily a shipping line. Its first business activities consisted of founding a number of lines from Rotterdam to Antwerp, Veere, Nijmegen and Arnhem. The required ships and in particular their engines, were designed by Roentgen. The first hulls were built by other companies, but the steam engines were a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsepower
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. Two common definitions used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is about 745.7 watts, and the metric horsepower, which is approximately 735.5 watts. The term was adopted in the late 18th century by Scottish engineer James Watt to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses. It was later expanded to include the output power of other types of piston engines, as well as turbines, electric motors and other machinery. The definition of the unit varied among geographical regions. Most countries now use the SI unit watt for measurement of power. With the implementation of the EU Directive 80/181/EEC on 1 January 2010, the use of horsepower in the EU is permitted only as a supplementary unit. History The development of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Orpheus (1860)
HMS ''Orpheus'' was a ''Jason''-class Royal Navy corvette that served as the flagship of the Australian squadron. ''Orpheus'' sank off the west coast of Auckland, New Zealand on 7 February 1863: 189 crew out of the ship's complement of 259 died in the disaster, making it the worst maritime tragedy to occur in New Zealand waters. The ship HMS ''Orpheus'' (named after the Greek hero) was a ''Jason''-class corvette, a screw-driven vessel built in Chatham Dockyard in Kent, England, in 1861. She was owned by the Royal Navy, and was 69 metres long with a crew of 259. ''Orpheus'' was commanded by Captain Robert Heron Burton. She displayed a broad pennant to indicate that Commodore William Farquharson Burnett, senior officer of HM ships and vessels on the Australian and New Zealand Stations, was also on board. It was wrecked when delivering naval supplies and troop reinforcements to Auckland for the New Zealand Wars. Background ''Orpheus's'' first journey was in December 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Paulowna-class Frigate
The ''Anna Paulowna'' class was a class of steam frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Only Anna Paulowna was completed, parts of Van Galen were used to build the steam corvette ''Zilveren Kruis''. Dutch Naval Plans in the 1860s Plan 1855 In May 1855 the Dutch Secretary for the navy Smit van den Broecke, presented an overall plan for the fleet at home and in the East Indies. The heaviest ships of the new fleet would be 3 screw steam frigates of 400 hp, 50 guns and 500 men, to be stationed in the Netherlands. The standard fighting warship for the East Indies would be a screw corvette of 250 hp, 12 30-pounders and 125 men, of which 12 would be built. For policing the many outposts in the Indies 15 sloops of 100 hp, 12 guns and 85 men would be built. These would be supplemented by small steam paddle ships that would navigate rivers and shallow waters. Of his successors, Johannes Servaas Lotsy held office from August 1856 till March 1861. He would execute a goo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlissingen Naval Base
Vlissingen Naval Base (Marine Etablissement Vlissingen) was a base for the Admiralty of Zeeland, and later the Dutch Navy. It has a number of major marine facilities of historic significance. It housed a shipyard for the Admiralty of Zeeland, and the national shipyard Rijkswerf Zeeland. Shipyard de Schelde would take over the grounds of the Rijkwerf, and still continues to build warships as Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding. Location of Vlissingen The location of Vlissingen on the mouth of the Schelde means that it can easily be reached by the biggest ships. Such was the case in the Middle Ages and this is still the case in the 21st century. What made Vlissingen a safe place for ships were the man-made facilities of the port. Large numbers of warships could lay in ordinary in the wet dock, and then be repaired either in the dry dock or on one of the slipways of the Rijkswerf. Facilities of the naval base at Vlissingen The Oosterhaven, the first dock The city walls of Vlissingen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ironclad Gloire
The French ironclad ''Gloire'' (, "Glory") was the first ocean-going ironclad, launched in 1859. It was developed after the Crimean War,The Battle of Sinop at the start of the war convinced the world's naval powers that wooden warships could not withstand the new weapons. in response to new developments of naval gun technology, especially the Paixhans guns and rifled guns, which used explosive shells with increased destructive power against wooden ships, and after the development of the ironclad floating batteries built by the British and French for the bombardment of Russian forts during the Crimean War. Design and description ''Gloire'' was designed by the French naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme as a 5,630-ton broadside ironclad with a wooden hull. Its 12 cm-thick (4.7 in) armour plates, backed with 43 cm (17 in) of timber, resisted hits by the experimental shooting of the strongest guns of the time (the French 50-pounder and the British 68-pounder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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