Half Model of A Floating Battery, Rijkswerf Vlissingen, 1867 ship model. half model 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 up and provided with a flat bottom, removed the upper decks and replaced by an armored superstructure with declining front and rear: this superstructure has a high front and rear section with inside sloping roofs. Three guns in the silk and two rows of one and a half guns in the front and rear (the battery had six pieces in the front and six at the rear). In the opposite part of the upper areas located opposite each other, four shooting holes were installed on each side: the snipers had to shoot diagonally. Behind a rudder. Flushing wood (plant material)