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Thursday, 17 July 2014

Dutch gun galley Weerwraak 1799

Model Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Her armament consisted of 4 guns. Bought in 1799 by the Department of Amsterdam, Netherlands and commissioned on 15 June commanded by J. van Maren . On 12-13 August for the second time in her short career involved in a fight with British forces. Her commanding officer stayed behind with 3 crewmembers, the other crewmembers went on shore where they made a shore battery. On 13 August off the Dutch island Schiermonnikoog again attacked by the British brig Crash, a cutter and armed launches and shot into fire and abandoned at 17.00 o‘clock. Three hours exploded she.

Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling van modellen van het Departement van Marine reported that she was built in 1799 using a French design armed with 2 guns (2x bow, 1 stern). Asmus (Admiralty Archives LXVII no. 17, National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands) called her a gunboat or galley, built in 1799 by R. Dorsman at the admiralty yard at Amsterdam with an armament of 7 guns and as dimensions 95 x 23 6/11 x 5 4/11 feet.