French ship Chatham (1810)

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History
France
Name	Chatham
Builder	Glavin, Rotterdam[1]
Laid down	1799[1]
Launched	1800[1]
Commissioned	July 1810[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
Tonnage	1500 tonnes[2]
Displacement	2900 tonnes [2]
Length	55.2 metres (51.8 at the keel) [2]
Beam	14.43 metres [2]
Draught	6.23 metres [2]
Depth	5.94 metres [2]
Complement	18 officers 650 to 819 men[2]
Armament	90 guns on three decks of 30 gun ports each[2]

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

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.^[1] In April, her armament was reduced by ten guns, removed from the upper deck.^[2]

She was returned to the Dutch Navy in 1814, and was decommissioned in 1823.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references[]

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References[]

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 68. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 112. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.