The shipsmodel of the TRIO is made of brass, of the real ship I have not much information, additional info welcome:
The Maritime Museum gives that around 1900 the Dutch inland waterway system was a crucial factor in the economic development of the port of Rotterdam for the transport to and from the German Ruhr district and other industry areas in Europe. The skippers of the inland waterway vessels were mostly independent and the skipper/owner was with his whole family on board.
The TRIO a river klipper (clipper) was built in 1901 by Gebroeders Paans at Roodevaart, Netherlands for schipper B. Muller in Hellevoetsluis. Have not more info on her.
The “klipper” was an iron hulled inland barge whose name is derived from the seagoing clipper, in the Netherlands she were called “river clippers” and the type came towards the end of the 19th century in service. The clipper carried what was called a clipperbow and a clean swept counter stern. They were not steered with a tiller but with a steering wheel. Fitted out with leeboards. Much of the rigging was made of wire and was operated by winches, so fewer blocks were needed. Mostly ketch rigged.
Tonnage size was between 50 to 375 tons.
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Various internet sites. Zeilvaart Lexicon by J van Beylen.
Thanks to Mr. D.J.Nieuwenhuijzen of which I got some more info on the TRIO.
She was built in 1901 as a steel hulled river klipper for account of Bakker van der Linden in Hellevoetsluis as DE TRIO.
Tonnage 160 tons, dim. 26.03 x 5.72 x 2.06m, draught 1.00m.
Eight years later he sold her to skipper A.J. Muller at Puttershoek and she was renamed TRIO.
She was in the ownership of the family Muller for three generations.
Till after World War II was it a sailing vessel.
1948 Motorized with a Blue 2-cyl. Deutz engine of 36 hp. and rigging removed. She kept her leeboards
1953 She was lengthened and a new deckhouse and wheelhouse placed on the stern, most probably her leeboards then removed.
Tonnage 254 ton, dim. 37.02 x 5.72 x 1.99m.
1973 Was she sold to father and son J. Goudriaan from Krimpen aan den IJsel, Netherland and renamed LIS (Leven is Strijd in English “Live is War”).
In 1985 had she a GM diesel type 671 of 165 hp. and at that time her leeboards had gone.
Till 1997 used in the cargo trade on the Dutch rivers, lakes and canals, then a restoration project started to bring her back in her old glory, The original building plans do not more exist but her rigging plan of 1901 still exist in the Maritime museum of Rotterdam. She was again shortened to her original length of 1901 and the hatch coaming lowered.
2003 Transferred or sold to the Museumwerf Vreeswijk in Nieuwengein, Netherlands
2004 The deckhouse and wheelhouse were removed.
2005 A steeringwheel, new deck and deckcabin have been placed. End 2005 a new mastdeck with mast trunk and new bollards placed.
After 2005 the web-site has not more any news on the TRIO.
2015 So far I can find out she is still in the possession of the museum.
(Image 3 of her was taken around 1984 when she is sailing on the Maas River fully loaded, only her bow looks a clipper bow but otherwise she is an inland barge. At that time she carried the name LIS.)
Source: http://www.museumwerf.nl/schepen/trio/ http://www.lvbhb.org/BHS/SchepenGalerij ... d=MTE0NTE=