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Frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy: HMS Wilhelmina, Van Speijk Class Frigate, Kortenaer Class Frigate, Jacob Van Heemskerck Class Frigate

Frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy: HMS Wilhelmina, Van Speijk Class Frigate, Kortenaer Class Frigate, Jacob Van Heemskerck Class Frigate


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Chapters: Hms Wilhelmina, Van Speijk Class Frigate, Kortenaer Class Frigate, Jacob Van Heemskerck Class Frigate, Tromp Class Frigate, Hnlms Van Speijk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: As frigate: As troopship: HMS Wilhelmina was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was previously a Dutch ship and had been built in 1787 for the Dutch Republic as the Wilhelmina. Renamed Furie in 1795, after the establishment of the Batavian Republic as a client state of the First French Empire, she, like other Dutch ships, was pressed into service to support Napoleon's plans to conquer the British Isles. The British captured her and the Dutch corvette Waakzaamheid in 1798 while the two were trying to support French and Irish forces involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The Royal Navy took both into service, with the Furie regaining her original name. Sailing as HMS Wilhelmina, she spent the bulk of her later career in the East Indies, serving mostly as a troopship. Here she fought an unequal battle against a large French privateer, and succeeded in driving her off and protecting a merchant she was escorting. Wilhelmina was almost the ship that faced a superior French squadron at the Battle of Vizagapatam, but she was replaced beforehand by the larger HMS Centurion. She spent the rest of her days as a guardship in Penang, and was sold there in 1813. Wilhelmina was built at Flushing in 1787, and armed with 32 guns. She sailed under that name for eight years for the Dutch Republic until the invasion of the Netherlands by the French in 1795 and the establishment of the Batavian Republic led to her being renamed Furie. In 1798 she was part of the Dutch contribution hastily assembled to support the uprising of the United Irishmen in 1798. Furie, unde...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2289140


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157019923
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157019927
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: HMS Wilhelmina, Van Speijk Class Frigate, Kortenaer Class Frigate, Jacob Van Heemskerck Class Frigate
  • Width: 229 mm


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