Dutch ship Delft

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Several ships of the Dutch Navy have borne the name Delft:

Delft (1658), a 36-gun ship, captured in 1665 during the Battle of Lowestoft and taken into service as HMS Delft. She was sold in 1668.
Delft (1664), a 36-gun ship, removed from Navy lists in 1667.
Delft (1666), a 66-gun ship, removed from Navy lists in 1689.
Delft (1691), a 60-gun ship, removed from Navy lists in 1697.
Delft (1699), a 54-gun ship, removed from Navy lists in 1712.
Delft (1731), a 56-gun ship, removed from Navy lists in 1778.
Delft (1783), a 54-gun ship, captured in 1797 during the Battle of Camperdown, she later sank due to damage received.

The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June [O.S. 3 June] 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam attacked an English fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York forty miles east of the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk.

Delft was a Dutch 56-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic and the Batavian Republic.

Battle of Camperdown major naval action fought on 11 October 1797

The Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797, between the British North Sea Fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Batavian Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter. The battle was the most significant action between British and Dutch forces during the French Revolutionary Wars and resulted in a complete victory for the British, who captured eleven Dutch ships without losing any of their own. In 1795, the Dutch Republic had been overrun by the army of the French Republic and had been reorganised into the Batavian Republic, a French client state. In early 1797, after the French Atlantic Fleet had suffered heavy losses in a disastrous winter campaign, the Dutch fleet was ordered to reinforce the French at Brest. The rendezvous never occurred; the continental allies failed to capitalise on the Spithead and Nore mutinies that paralysed the British Channel forces and North Sea fleets during the spring of 1797.

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