Nautical Research Journal 47


21. Draught of Wageningen, a 26-gun frigate (1723) by Gerbrandt Slegt, prepared as an aptitude test for the Admiralty of Amsterdam.


fi rst Dutch design drawings showing folded frames in a side view date from almost half a century aſt er the date applied to the statenjacht drawing. T ey were not made by an outsider such as Storck, but by the Zaanse shipbuilding master Gerbrandt Slegt, who worked for the Amsterdam Admiralty yard from 1723 to 1726.


T e artist who made these plates cut blank pages out of old books and produced what are on fi rst sight surprising authentic looking ship plans that, on closer inspection, prove to be of no value. Neither the display of the frames for the pinas, nor a large number of technical aspects, or even just the type of ship can be reconciled with what we know today about ships of the period. T e similarities in the technique of drawing and watermarks are evident. In addition, we see the same characteristic errors and the same foot scale applied to both the statenjacht drawings and the pinas drawings.


I fear that, partly on the basis of the watermarks, we have to conclude that the statenjacht drawings were not made by Storck any more than the pinas drawings and that the section by Stuckenburch can be attributed to Johannes. T ey all come from the same much more recent unknown source. It is regrettable that it is precisely these pinas drawings that have become a popular building subject for many model builders. In 1976 the Delius, Klasing & Co publishing house published a book for model builders: Risse von Schiff e des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Sketches of 16th 17th


and -century ships). Although nowhere mentioned


as such, Hans Szymanski drew the reconstruction of the frigate Berlin, which was part of the Brandenburg fl eet in 1674, on the basis of the series of drawings mentioned here. T e model was built by the model maker Browatzky under the direction of Rolf Hoeckel, known from several model building publications from the same publisher. Since then, dozens of Berlin models have been produced in the modeling world by industrious model builders who thought they were


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