The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797, by Thomas Whitcombe. The Vrijheid is being dismasted during the battle.
History
Dutch Republic
Name
Vrijheid
Launched
1782
Commissioned
1782
Decommissioned
1795
Batavian Republic
Name
Vrijheid
Commissioned
1795
In service
1795
Out of service
1797
Captured
11 October 1797
Fate
Captured
Great Britain
Name
HMS Vryheid
Acquired
1797
Commissioned
1797
Decommissioned
1811
Reclassified
Prison ship in 1798
Powder hulk from 1802
Fate
Disposed in 1811
General characteristics
Class and type
74-gun third rate
ship of the line
Propulsion
Sails
Sail plan
Full-rigged ship
Armament
74 Guns
Vrijheid was a Dutch 74-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 Amsterdam. The ship was commissioned in 1782.
In 1783, a squadron consisting of the ships Vrijheid, Noordholland, Hercules, Drenthe, Prins Willem and Harlingen was dispatched to the Mediterranean to deal with differences that had arisen with Venice. On 2 February 1784, the squadron docked at the coast near the island of Menorca. In the night between 3 and 4 February, a storm struck which lasted for 48 hours. Vrijheid was almost smashed on the rocks and only just managed to stay afloat, while Drenthe keeled over and sank.[1]
In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy.
On 11 October 1797, Vrijheid took part in the Battle of Camperdown as the flagship of Admiral Jan Willem de Winter. At a certain point, Vrijheid was engaged by four British ships, and after heavy fighting the ship surrendered.[2]
A model of the ship.
The ship was renamed HMS Vryheid, and from 1798 she served as a prison ship. In 1802, she became a powder hulk until she was sold in 1811.[3]
^Irene de Groot and Robert Vorstman, Sailing Ships: Prints by the Dutch masters from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century (Maarssen: Uitgeverij Gary Schwartz, 1980), 171-172.
^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), 341-347.
^"Design histories of rated warships... "tracing the family trees" [Archive] - Sails of Glory Anchorage". sailsofglory.org.
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