French ship Royal Hollandais (1810)

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

History
France
Name:	Royal Hollandais
Builder:	Glavin, Rotterdam[1]
Laid down:	1804[1]
Launched:	1806
Commissioned:	July 1810
General characteristics
Class and type:	Chatham class ship of the line
Tonnage:	1500 tonnes[2]
Displacement:	2900 tonnes [2]
Length:	55.2 metres (51.8 at the keel) [2]
Beam:	14.43 metres [2]
Draught:	6.23 metres [2]
Depth:	5.94 metres [2]
Complement:	18 officers 650 to 819 men[2]
Armament:	90 guns on three decks of 30 gun ports each[2]

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]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.388
2. Demerliac, p.68, no 471

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 68. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 388. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.