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French ship Chatham (1810)

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Name
  
Chatham

Laid down
  
1799

Tonnage
  
1500 tonnes

Launched
  
1800

Draft
  
6.23 m

Builder
  
Glavin, Rotterdam

Commissioned
  
July 1810

Construction started
  
1799

Weight
  
2,900 tons

Class and type
  
Chatham class ship of the line

Royal Hollandais was a 90-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class.

Career

Started for the Navy of the Batavian Republic, the ship was incorporated in the French Navy when the First French Empire annexed the country. On 10 July, she was appointed to Missiessy's Escaults squadron. In April, her armament was reduced by ten guns, removed from the upper deck.

She was returned to the Dutch Navy in 1814, and was decommissioned in 1823.

References

French ship Chatham (1810) Wikipedia