For other ships with the same name, see HMS Delft.
The ship Hercules shortly after the Battle of Camperdown.
History
Dutch Republic
Name
Hercules
Laid down
1781
Launched
12 April 1782
Commissioned
1782
Decommissioned
1795
Batavian Republic
Name
Hercules
Commissioned
1795
In service
1795
Out of service
1797
Captured
11 October 1797
Fate
Captured
Great Britain
Name
HMS Delft
Acquired
1797
Commissioned
1797
Decommissioned
1822
Reclassified
Transport ship in 1799
Prison ship from 1802
Fate
Sunk as a breakwater in 1822
General characteristics
Class and type
68-gun third-rate ship of the line
Propulsion
Sails
Sail plan
Full-rigged ship
Armament
68 guns:
Lower gun deck: 26 × 24-pdrs
Upper gun deck: 26 × 18-pdrs
Quarterdeck & Forecastle: 8 × 8-pdrs
Hercules was a Dutch 68-gun third-rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic, the Batavian Republic, and the Royal Navy.
The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of the Meuse in 1781.[1]
In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy.
Hercules on fire at the Battle of Camperdown, by Thomas Whitcombe
On 11 October 1797 Hercules took part in the Battle of Camperdown under Captain G.J. van Rijsoort. Fire broke out on the ship, and she was eventually captured by the British and renamed HMS Delft, in honour of the brave resistance the ship Delft had made in the battle.[2]
In 1799, Delft served as a troop transport ship. She became a prison hulk in 1802, and in 1822 she was sunk to serve as a breakwater close to the town of Harwich.[3]
Hercules in 1797, along with six other Dutch ships, captured and brought back to the Medway following the Battle of Camperdown
^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.
^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), 394.
^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), 394.
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