French ship Royal Hollandais (1810)

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NameRoyal Hollandais
BuilderGlavin, Rotterdam [1]
Laid down1797 [1]
Launched1799
CommissionedJuly 1810
FateDecommissioned 1819
General characteristics
Class and type Chatham class ship of the line
Tonnage1500 tonnes [2]
Displacement2900 tonnes [2]
Length61.5 metres (51.8 at the keel) [2]
Beam14.43 metres [2]
Draught6.23 metres [2]
Depth5.94 metres [2]
Complement
  • 18 officers
  • 650 to 819 men [2]
Armament90 guns on three decks of 30 gun ports each [2]

Royal Hollandais was a 90-gun Chatham-class ship of the line

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Career

Started for the Navy of the Batavian Republic as De Ruyter, and renamed Koninklijke Hollander at the foundation of the Kingdom of Holland in 1806, the ship was incorporated in the French Navy as Royal Hollandais when the First French Empire annexed the country. In 1811, that name was shortened to Hollandais. On 10 July, she was appointed to Missiessy's Escaults squadron. [1]

She was returned to the Dutch Navy in 1814, and was decommissioned in 1819. [1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.388
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Demerliac, p.68, no 471

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