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23. Model of the frigate Berlin, released as a kit by the manufacturer, Corel.


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


building a seventeenth-century Dutch ship model based on respectable sources. We even see models of this imaginary vessel popping up in various small German museums. (Figures 22 and 23)


Worse yet, publicists on the subject of seventeenth- century shipbuilding (not excluding myself) have been misled for years and have thought that something like building plans must have existed in the second half of that century. I hope to have demonstrated that this series of eleven technical drawings belong together, that they cannot possibly have been made in the suggested year, and that we are dealing with counterfeits. Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam would do well to conduct an in-depth investigation into the material of this group of drawings and their provenance.


Many thanks to Kees Paul for his help writing this article,


to paper conservator T ea Vorstman and


to the helpful staff of Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam.


T is article originally was published in Dutch in 2018 in Scheepshistorie 24 and in German in Das Logbuch 2018 Heſt 1. Translation by Emil Hoving and Paul Fontenoy.


Ab Hoving was the lead restorer of model ships and curator of the Marine Model Room at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from 1989 until 2012. He has published many articles on Dutch shipbuilding and its history in academic and modeling journals, including the NRJ, and wrote Nicholaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, T e Statenjacht Utrecht, 17th


-Century Dutch Merchant


Ships, and Message in a Model. He also was involved in the creation of the full-size replicas of Duyf en in Australia, the statenjacht Utrecht, and the revised design for Michel de Ruyter’s De Zeven Provincien.


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