JACOB VAN HEEMSKERCK 

 

This model of the Royal Netherlands Navy “pansership” as she appeared  in 1908 
shows all the main features of coast defence ship in the type’s heyday: 
compactness, simplicity and, unusually for her period, an enclosed bridge. The ship 
never served in the defence of the Netherlands, but only in the Dutch East Indies, 
hence her being painted white and her array of top semaphores.