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Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Dutch gunboat Adsistentie 1796-

Model Rijksmusem, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

The Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, Netherlands possesses a model of a small flat-bottomed 1-mast gunboat called Adsistentie, built in 1796 and of which further details are unknown. Obreen who described the models once possession of the Royal Netherlands Navy supplied in his book no other details.

However there is one small Dutch vessel known from that period namely the at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1797 by built Glavimans pilot vessel called Assistentie with the dimensions 65 x 18 6/11 x 8 3/11. Source Asmus Collec. XLVII no. 17 Admiralty Archives (National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands).