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The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797, by Thomas Whitcombe. The Vrijheid is being dismasted during the battle.
History
Dutch Navy EnsignDutch Republic
NameVrijheid
Launched1782
Commissioned1782
Decommissioned1795
Batavian Navy EnsignBatavian Republic
NameVrijheid
Commissioned1795
In service1795
Out of service1797
Captured11 October 1797
FateCaptured
Dutch ship VrijheidGreat Britain
NameHMS Vryheid
Acquired1797
Commissioned1797
Decommissioned1811
Reclassified
  • Prison ship in 1798
  • Powder hulk from 1802
FateDisposed in 1811
General characteristics
Class and type
  • 74-gun third rate
  • ship of the line
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament74 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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Design histories of rated warships... "tracing the family trees" [Archive] - Sails of Glory Anchorage". sailsofglory.org.

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