In 1859 Hans Busk gave the following information dealing with the Dutch Navy. I added some notes for the largest classes of ships using literature and archives.
P. 100: "2-84 gun ships of the line(1), 3-74 gun ships of the line(2), 7 first-class frigates (3 of them screw) armed with 54 to 45 guns, 8-second class frigates armed with 38-36 guns (3), 1-28 gun second class frigate, rasée (4), 10 corvettes (5 of them screw) armed with 19-12 guns (5), 7 brigs armed with 18-12 guns, 13 schooners armed with 1-4 guns, 10 screw schooners 8 guns, 14 vessels of various kind with a total armament of 94 guns, 2 transports, 2 frigates and 1 corvette serving as guard vessels, 2 corvettes serving as training vessels and 1 brig serving with the coast guard, total armament of these 6 vessels 11 guns, 55 gunboats, 4 guns, 2 screw gun boats, 4 guns and 1-8 gun schooner of gun vessel".
p. 123-124: "The Navy of Holland is well organized, disciplined, and appointed. It comprises at the present moment 2 ships of the line of 84 guns each, and 3 of 74; 7 first-class frigates (3 of them screw), 54 to 45 guns, 8-second class frigates, 38-36 guns,1-second-class rasée, 28 guns; 10 corvettes (5 of them screw), 19 to 12 guns; 7 brigs, 18 tot 12 guns; 10 screw schooners of 8 guns; and 27 smaller craft, mounting together 98 guns. Besides these, there are in this list 2 transports, 2 frigates, and 1 corvette (guard-vessels), and 2 training vessels; 55 gun boats, mounting together 174 guns; 2 screw ditto, 2 guns each; and 1 schooner gun-vessel, carrying 8 guns. The Wassenaer, launched March, 1859, is one of their finest frigates. She is a fine ship of 2400 tons, but without any novelty of design or detail; carries 44 guns, 30-pounders and 8-inch shell guns, with a pivot (68 pounder) on the forecastle; engine, nominally 300-horse power, but can work to 500-horse power; two cilinders, trunks, 4 feet stroke, burn 35 tons daily; at 55 revolutions, eight days' fuel; said to steam eight knots.
The personnel includes 1 admiral, 1 lieutenant-admiral, 2-vice-admirals, 4 rear-admirals, 20 captains of line-of-battle ships, 40 captains of frigates, 272 first and second lieutenants (these ranks, if filled up, would comprise altogether 370-viz, 120 first, and 250 second lieutenants). Of first-class cadets there are 59; of the second 55; and of the third 79; 92 medical officers; and 80 connected in various ways with the administration.".
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Notes
(1). Koning der Nederlanden, on stocks as Neptunus at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands 27 December 1821, launched October 1825, renamed Koning der Nederlanden 1844, 84 guns, last 3-decker of Royal Dutch Navy, rebuilt at Flushing 1859-1860 as 32-gun floating battery Neptunus by removing the front- and aft ship and fitting armoured fronts, stricken 1876 and the Zeeuw, on stocks by C. Soetermeer at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands August 1819, launched 1825, 84-92 guns, rebuilt at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands as armoured floating battery Jupiter, stricken 1873, aft ship was round or oval shaped.
(2). Koningin der Nederlanden, on stocks as Kortenaer at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands May 1819, launched 1825, renamed Koningin der Nederlanden 1844, 74 guns, stricken 1859, according to Van Dijk to be rebuilt in 1861-1862 at naval yard at Amsterdam as floating battery Olifant, but work stopped; Kortenaer, on stocks as Jupiter at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1825, launched 1833, renamed Kortenaer 1844, 74 guns, draught 6,80m and the Tromp, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1830, launched 1850, 74 guns, after the removal in 1843 of an amount of decayed wood from the hull, started in 1849 the completion, saw never active service, 1867 stricken and 1872 broken up.
(3). Ceres, 44-gun frigate, on stocks by P. Glavimans at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 1824, launched 18 August 1830, displacement 1460 ton, rebuilt 1859-1860 as 26-gun armoured floating battery Draak at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands, 6 October 1874 wreck docked in dry dock at naval yard at Hellevoetsluis and broken up, completed end of the month; De Ruyter, on stocks as ship of the line at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands 20 August 1831, rerazed as 54 gun first class frigate 1850, launched 1853, commissioned 21 August 1854, fitted out with engines and 45 guns at naval yard at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 1860, dry dock (fore dock) 20-21 October 1859 and aft dock 25 October 1859-19 September 1861,-dimensions 64,52 x 14,46 x 6,80m, 400 hp, rebuilt as 14-gun floating battery 1862-1865 at Flushing, Netherlands and sold to be broken up 1874; Doggersbank, 60-gun frigate, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1831, launched 24 November 1841, stricken 1873; Evertsen, 51-gun steamfrigate, on stocks by L.K. Turk at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands 6 or 26 October 1854, launched 21 September 1857, first launched 19 September 1857 failed, displacement 3300 ton, dimensions 63,50 x 15,70 x 6,80m, 400 hp, 8 knots, renamed Neptunus 11 March 1893, laid up 1919/stricken 1921; Holland, 44-gun frigate of 2nd class, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1833, launched 16 October 1845, displacement 1461 ton, stricken 1873; Palembang, 44-gun frigate, on stocks at Amsterdam, Netherlands February 1822, launched 1829, commissioned 1841, stricken 1864; Piet Hein, on stocks as 74-gun ship at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1833, taken into pieces 1850, on stocks as 45-gun steamfrigate at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 15 February 1853, launched 1856 as Admiraal van Wassenaar, displacement 3650 ton, dimensions 62.36 (72.86) x 15.72 x 6.80m, 300 hp. 470 men; Prins Alexander der Nederlanden, 44-gun frigate, on stocks as Lek at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1832, launched as Prins Alexander der Nederlanden 3 September 1844, displacement 1460 ton, not mentioned on ship list dated 1 January 1875; Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden, 38-gun frigate, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 September 1844, launched 2 December 1847, 1859 decided to rebuilt at Flushing, Netherlands as 32-gun floating battery Olifant (according to Vermeulen) and Pollux (according to Van Dijk), never commissioned and stricken 1860; Prinses Sophia, 38-gun frigate, on stocks at Amsterdam, Netherlands 15 August 1845, launched 29 June 1857, displacement 1861 ton, rebuilt at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands as the 30-gun floating battery Orkaan, stricken 1872; Prins Frederik der Nederlanden, 44-gun (original 38 guns) frigate, on stocks as IJssel by P. Glavimans at naval yard at Rotterdam 18 December 1830, launched as Prins Frederik der Nederlanden 29 June 1840, displacement 1461 ton, rebuilt as 11-gun floating battery Salamander at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1859-1860, draught 2,40m, broken up 1903; Prins van Oranje, 60-gun frigate, on stocks by P.&C.J. Glavimans at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 1828 or 1829, launched 16 May 1840, displacement 2485 ton, draught 6,3m, ex-Waal, renamed Prins van Oranje 1844, sold to be broken up 1897; Rhijn/Rijn, 54-gun frigate, on stocks by P. Glavimans at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands March 1813, launched 5 October 1816, coppered at the naval yard at Hellevoetsluis 1818, commissioned at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 1 February 1819, displacement 2485 ton, dimensions 53,25 x 12,20 x 5,57m, transferred to the Netherlands by treaty of 1814, original named La Vestale, lenghtened at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands 1828 with 23m, destined to become steamship but in 1830 at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands rebuilt as 54-gun frigate, for this pupose she was shortened with 16,7m, stricken 1874. Sambre, 44-gun frigate, decision to be built 15 April 1816 no. 16, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands June 1818 as Algiers, launched August 1821, coppered 1821, dimensions 163'x 42 x 22 27/11 (63,2 x 11,92 x 6,42m), displacement 1461 ton, renamed by decision 5 April no. 100 1818 Sambre, stricken 1867, not mentioned on ship list dated 1 January 1868.
(4). Rotterdam, 28-gun frigate, on stocks at naval yard by P. Glavimans at Rotterdam, Netherlands December 1821, ordered to complete 19 February 1825, launched as 44-gun frigate 6 June 1826, dimensions 163 (deck) x 42' x 22'7", rerazed as 28-gun frigate 1838, stricken 1862.
(5). Ajax, 28-gun 'kuil'corvette, on stocks at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 13 October 1828, launched 1832, displacement 776 ton, decision 24 April 1890 to sell the hull of the condemned, rerazed corvette; Atalante, 28-gun 'kuil'corvette, on stocks at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands June 1842, launched 1849, displacement 776 ton, draught 4,70m, renamed Prins Maurits der Nederlanden 1850, stricken 1905; Castor, 28-gun 'kuil'corvette, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands, launched 1835, dimensions 36,50 x 10,30m, displacement 776 ton, rebuilt as training battery 1849, stricken 1866; Heldin, 22-gun one deck corvette, later fitted out with 10 guns, on stocks at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands 31 June or July 1839, launched 26 May 1842, displacement 900 ton, lastmentioned January 1915; Juno, 32-gun 'kuil'corvette, on stocks by P. Glavimans at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 20 June 1833, launched 14 May 1839, coppered at the naval yard at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 29 March-17 April 1841, commissioned 1 April 1841, dimensions 39,50 x 10,70m, displacement 932 ton, stricken 1871; Van Speyk, 26-gun corvette, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1838, ex-Medusa renamed 1841, launched 21 June 1843, displacement 900 ton, stricken 1878; Pallas, 22-gun 'gladdeks'corvette of 2nd class, on stocks at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 7 June 1839, launched 19 June 1845, displacement 900 ton, dimensions 39,50 x 10,80m, not longer mentioned on ship list dated 1 January 1874; Prinses Amalia, 28-gun corvette, on stocks as 28-gun 'kuil'corvette Borneo at naval yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 30 August 1845, dimensions 36,50 x 10,30m, displacement 776 ton, taken into pieces August 1850, transferred to the naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands, on stocks April or 29 July 1853, launched 12 October 1855 as 19-gun sail-steam corvette, renamed 6 August 1863 Prinses Amalia, dimensions 51 x 11,50 x 5m, displacement 1350 ton, 207 men, 150 hp, stricken 1875 and Urania, 10-gun corvette, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam 1830, launched 1832, displacement 278 ton, dimensions 28,50 x 7,90 x 2,80m, renamed 1868 Astrea, stricken 1888.
