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Monday, 7 July 2014

Dutch 6th charter Prinses Frederika Louisa Wilhelmina 1789-1795, Brave 1795-1796, British 5th rate Braave 1796-1825

Model Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Admiralty of the Maze, On stocks at the navy yard at Rotterdam,Netherlands in 1789 as the 6th charter Prinses Frederika Louisa Wilhelmina, Prinses by P. Glavimans, launched 20-10-1790, renamed Brave in 1795, captured by British in the Saldanha Bay 17 August 1796, commissioned in the Royal British Navy in December, decommissioned 1804, converted into a receiving ship at Portsmouth July-August 1811 and finally sold on 20 July 1825dimensions 147 x 40 x 15½, 36-40 guns, 250 men and British measurement 883 tons.