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Vrijheid

Vrijheid

Captured

Batavian Navy, then Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns74 guns
WarFrench Revolutionary Wars

Service

to 1797Vrijheid
from 1797Vryheid

Captured at Camperdown

74-gun ship, Vice-Admiral de Winter's flagship at Camperdown. Dismasted and taken after a long fight with Venerable and others; de Winter was the only unwounded man on her quarterdeck.

Photo: Thomas Whitcombe, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 74 Guns
Launched1782
Commissioned1782

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

1782

11 October 1797

De Winter's flagship

Renamed HMS Vryheid

1797 · Captured at Camperdown

Fate

Captured

Disposed in 1811