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} |} The ''Wassenaar'' was a Dutch 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic and the Batavian Republic, and the Royal Navy. The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of the Meuse. The ship was commissioned in 1781.〔J.F. Fischer Fzn. ''De Delft: De dagjournalen met de complete en authentieke geschiedenis van 's Lands schip van oorlog Delft en de waarheid over de zeeslag bij Camperduin'' (Franeker: Van Wijnen, 1997), 135.〕 In 1783/1784, the ''Wassenaar'' sailed to Batavia under Captain Gerardus Oorthuis.〔Nieuwe Nederlandsche Jaarboeken, achttiende deel, derde stuk (Amsterdam : Erven F. Houttuyn, Leiden, P. van der Eyk en D. Vyg, 1783), 2221.〕 In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy. On 11 October 1797 the ''Wassenaar'' took part in the Battle of Camperdown under Captain Adolph Holland. Holland was killed during the battle, and his ship surrendered to . HMS ''Triumph'' then sailed on to the centre of the battle, and when the ''Wassenaar'' was fired on by a Dutch brig, the crew raised the Dutch colours again. But in the end they were captured again by the British.〔William Laird Clowes, ''The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume IV'' (London: Chatham Publishing, 1997), 54.〕 As HMS ''Wassenaar'', the ship first served as a troop ship. In February 1789 she was the flagship of Admiral Joseph Peyton in the Downs. In the years 1800-1802 she served in the Mediterranean. In her final years (1802-1815) she lay at Chatham as a powder hulk, until she was finally sold for breaking up in 1818.〔Sam Willis, ''In the hour of victory'' (London: Atlantic Books, 2009), 130-153.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dutch ship Wassenaar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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