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Friday, 17 August 2012

Dutch warships declared British prizes according to the Dutch newspaper Groninger Courant dated 8 April 1800

According to an item dated London 25 March was from Sheerness the tiding received that the Dutch warships Broederschap (1) of 54 guns, Hector (2) of 44 guns and the Minerve (3) and Venus (4) of 24 were to be considered as good prizes.

Notes
1. A 4th rate, since 1804 a floating battery, became in 1805 a hulk and broken up the same year, with as dimensions 140' x 41½', 1063 tons builders measurement, 50 guns
2. She became the 5th rate Pandour, and was captured as the  Dutch Hector in 1799, transferred to Customs Service as a storehulk 1805, dimensions 134' x 39' , 894 tons builders measurement, 44 guns. IN the Dutch navy described as a 5th charter belonging to the admiralty Amsterdam, on stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam in 1782, launched on 13 July 1784, captured by British 1799, dimensions (Amsterdam foot) 145 (lower deck) x 41 x 17 9/11, 44 guns.
3. The 7th charter Minerva of the  admiralty Zeeland, built at Veere in 1787, captured by the British on 10 November 1799, dimensions 136 x 36 5/11 x 13 10/11, 20-26 guns and crew numbering 150 men. In the Royal British navy commissioned as the 6th rate Braak with as dimensions 116½' x 34½' and a builders measurement of 613 tons.
4. The 7th charter Venus of the admiralty Amsterdam, built by John May at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1768, captured by the British in 1796, dimensions (Amsterdam foot) 125 7/11 x 33 7/11 x 13 2/11, 24 guns and a crew numbering 156 men. Commissioned in the Royal British navy as the 6th rate Amaranthe, broken up in 1804, dimensions 112½' x 31½', 498 tons builders measurement, 28 guns.