Dutch ship Wassenaar

The Wassenaar was a Dutch 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic and the Batavian Republic, and the Royal Navy. The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of the Meuse. The ship was commissioned in 1781.[1] In 1783/1784, the Wassenaar sailed to Batavia under Captain Gerardus Oorthuis.[2]

Stern of the ship Wassenaar
History
Dutch Republic
Name: Wassenaar
Builder: Zwindrecht, Rotterdam
Launched: 1781
Commissioned: 1781
Batavian Republic
Name: Wassenaar
Out of service: 1797
Fate: Captured
UK
Name: HMS Wassenaar
Acquired: 1797
Commissioned: 1797
Decommissioned: 1815
Reclassified: Powder hulk in 1802
Fate: Sold for breaking up, 1818
General characteristics
Class and type: 64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,269 ​48⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 158 ft 2 in (48.2 m) (gundeck)
  • 131 ft 1.25 in (40.0 m) (keel)
Beam: 42 ft 8 in (13.0 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft 2.5 in (6.2 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 491 (250 as troopship)
Armament:
  • In Dutch service
  • Lower gundeck: 26 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • Quarterdeck and forecastle: 14 × 8-pounder guns
  • In British service
  • Lower gundeck: 28 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 9-pounder guns
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounder guns
  • no guns as a troop ship and hulk.

In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy.

On 11 October 1797 the Wassenaar took part in the Battle of Camperdown under Captain Adolph Holland. Holland was killed during the battle, and his ship surrendered to HMS Triumph. HMS Triumph then sailed on to the centre of the battle, and when the Wassenaar was fired on by a Dutch brig, the crew raised the Dutch colours again. But in the end they were captured again by the British.[3]

As HMS Wassenaar, the ship first served as a troop ship. In February 1789 she was the flagship of Admiral Joseph Peyton in the Downs. In the years 1800-1802 she served in the Mediterranean. In her final years (1802-1815) she lay at Chatham as a powder hulk, until she was finally sold for breaking up in 1818.[4]

References
  1. J.F. Fischer Fzn. De Delft: De dagjournalen met de complete en authentieke geschiedenis van 's Lands schip van oorlog Delft en de waarheid over de zeeslag bij Camperduin (Franeker: Van Wijnen, 1997), 135.
  2. Nieuwe Nederlandsche Jaarboeken, achttiende deel, derde stuk (Amsterdam : Erven F. Houttuyn, Leiden, P. van der Eyk en D. Vyg, 1783), 2221.
  3. William Laird Clowes, The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume IV (London: Chatham Publishing, 1997), 54.
  4. Sam Willis, In the hour of victory (London: Atlantic Books, 2009), 130-153.
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