Half Model of a Floating Battery, Polychromed stacking model (starboard) of a floating battery, gray below and black above the waterline. The hull is that of a line ship of 84 pieces, the lower part sawn off and provided with a flat bottom, the upper decks removed and replaced by an armored superstructure with receding front and rear bulkhead: this superstructure has a high front and rear part with inwards sloping roofs. Three artillery ports in the side and two rows of one and a half artillery ports in the front and rear bulkhead (the battery had six parts in front and six in back). In the opposing bulkheads of the upper sections, four shooting holes are provided on each side: the snipers had to shoot diagonally. Behind a rudder, Jupiter (ship), Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Flushing, 1867, wood (plant material), h 29.3 cm × w 137.5 cm × d 17.5 cm
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