Dutch ship Batavier (1779)
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 Batavier (E) during the Battle of Dogger Bank on 5 August 1781. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Dutch Republic | |
| Name | Batavier |
| Laid down | 8 September 1777 |
| Launched | 18 February 1779 |
| Commissioned | 1780 |
 Batavian Republic | |
| Name | Batavier |
| Captured | By the Royal Navy in 1799 |
 Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Batavier |
| Acquired | 30 August 1799 |
| Commissioned | 1799 |
| Out of service | 1823 |
| Reclassified |
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| Fate | Broken up in 1823 |
| General characteristics in Dutch service | |
| Class & type |
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| Length | 143 ft 0 in (43.6 m) (gundeck); in Amsterdam feet this equalled 154½ |
| Beam | 39 ft 11 in (12.2 m); in Amsterdam feet this equalled 43 |
| Depth of hold | 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m); in Amsterdam feet this equalled 20 |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Armament | 50 guns of varying sizes |
| General characteristics in British service | |
| Class & type |
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| Tons burthen | 1,047 87⁄94 (bm) |
| Length | |
| Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.4 m) |
| Depth of hold | 16 ft 5 in (5.0 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Armament |
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Batavier was a 56-gun ship of the line of the Dutch States Navy. Launched in 1779, she was organisationally part of the Admiralty of Amsterdam and served at the Battle of Dogger Bank during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. In 1795 Batavier became part of the new Batavian Navy, and on 30 August 1799 was captured by British forces during the Vlieter incident of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. The Royal Navy brought her to England and commissioned the vessel as HMS Batavier in 1801. She was used in various subsidiary roles until being broken up in 1823.
The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of Amsterdam. The ship was laid down on 8 September 1777, launched on 18 February 1779 and commissioned in 1780.[1] On 5 August 1781, Batavier took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank under Captain Wolter Jan Gerrit Bentinck. Batavier sailed in the middle of the Dutch line, between the ships Admiraal de Ruyter and Argo. She was engaged by three British ships, and became unmanageable after a fire broke out. The battle, while indecisive tactically, resulted in a strategic British victory and afterwards Batavier was towed to Texel. Bentinck later died wounds he received in the battle.[2]
In 1795, following the French occupation of the Netherlands during the French Revolutionary Wars, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy. On 11 October 1797 Batavier took part in the Battle of Camperdown under Captain Jan Jacob Souter. Early in the battle, the ship was under heavy fire, but soon she drifted off, and she eventually left the scene and fled to Texel.[3] On 30 August 1799 the ship was surrendered to a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Andrew Mitchell during the Vlieter incident, even though Batavier was the only ship of the Dutch fleet where no mutiny had broken out.[4]