Dutch ship Wassenaar (1781)

For other ships with the same name, see Dutch ship Wassenaar.

Stern of Wassenaar
History
Dutch Republic
Name	Wassenaar
Builder	Zwindrecht, Rotterdam
Launched	1781
Commissioned	1781
Batavian Republic
Name	Wassenaar
Out of service	1797
Fate	Captured
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Wassenaar
Acquired	1797
Commissioned	1797
Decommissioned	1815
Reclassified	Powder hulk in 1802
Fate	Sold for breaking up, 1818
General characteristics
Class & type	64-gun ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,269 48⁄94 (bm)
Length	158 ft 2 in (48.2 m) (gundeck) 131 ft 1.25 in (40.0 m) (keel)
Beam	42 ft 8 in (13.0 m)
Depth of hold	20 ft 2.5 in (6.2 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	491 (250 as troopship)
Armament	In Dutch service Lower gundeck: 26 × 32-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns Quarterdeck and forecastle: 14 × 8-pounder guns In British service Lower gundeck: 28 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 8 × 9-pounder guns Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounder guns no guns as a troop ship and hulk.

Wassenaar was a 64-gun ship of the line of the Dutch States Navy. The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of Rotterdam. The ship was commissioned in 1781. From 1783 to 1784, Wassenaar sailed to Batavia under Captain Gerardus Oorthuis.

In 1795, the ship was commissioned into the Batavian Navy. On 11 October 1797 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. Triumph then sailed on to the centre of the battle, and when Wassenaar was fired on by a Batavian brig, the crew raised the Batavian flag again. But in the end they were captured again by the British.

As HMS Wassenaar, the ship first served as a troop ship. In February 1798 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.