- In the
Vlieter incident on 30
August 1799, a
squadron of the
Batavian Navy,
commanded by Rear-Admiral
Samuel Story,
surrendered to the
British navy. The...
- Friesland, and 7.4
metres (24 ft)
where it
crosses the deep
channel of the
Vlieter. The
height at the
greater sea
depths west of
Friesland was
required to...
-
Aegidius van
Braam (30 July 1758 in
Gorinchem – 17 May 1822 in Delft) was a
Dutch naval officer who
attained the rank of vice-admiral. When the
Dutch Republic...
-
squadron which surrendered without a
fight to the
Royal Navy
during the
Vlieter incident in 1799.
Story was born in Maasbommel. He
entered the
Dutch States...
- of Holland,
engineering the
capture of a
Batavian naval squadron in the
Vlieter Incident. The
surrender of the
ships (that had been paid for by the Batavian...
- by the
British in the
Vlieter (off Texel) on 30
August 1799 (A)
Gelderland 68 guns (1781) -
captured by the
British in the
Vlieter (off Texel) on 30 August...
- 68-gun
Batavian ship of the line that the
British navy
captured in the 1799
Vlieter incident and took into
service as the 64-gun
storeship HMS De Ruyter. She...
- 1769),
captured at the
Vlieter Incident (1799),
renamed Broaderscarp,
broken up 1805
Batavier (c. 1779),
captured at the
Vlieter Incident (1799), broken...
-
which the
Royal Navy
captured 30
August 1799 by Mitc****'s
squadron in the
Vlieter.
Foundered 9 July 1801 at Sheerness, but salved.
Initially added as Ambuscade...
- However, the
Capitulation of
Saldanha Bay, the
Battle of
Camperdown and the
Vlieter incident showed that the navy did not
measure up to that expectation. Nevertheless...
