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|Ship caption= The Batavier (E) during the Battle of the Dogger Bank on 5 August 1781.
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|Ship country=[[Dutch Republic]]
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|Ship name=''Batavier''
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|Ship fate= Broken up in 1823
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|Ship class=56-gun [[third rate]]<br>[[ship of the line]]
|Ship tons burthen= 1048
|Ship length= 144'
|Ship beam= 40'
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|Ship hold depth= 16'
|Ship sail plan=[[Full rigged ship]]
|Ship propulsion=Sails
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Lower gundeck: 22 × 24-pounder guns<br>
Upper gundeck: 24 × 12-pounder guns<br>
[[Quarterdeck]] and [[forecastle]]: 8 × 6-pounder guns<br>


|Ship notes= Served as a hospital  ship in the years 1809-1823
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The '''''Batavier''''' was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] 56-gun [[fourth rate]] [[ship of the line]] of the navy of the [[Dutch Republic]], the [[Batavian Republic]], and the [[Royal Navy]].
The order to construct the ship was given by the [[Admiralty of Amsterdam]]. The ship was commissioned in 1780.<ref>Noordhollandsche Courant, 05-07-1780, via: http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010721496:mpeg21:a0003</ref>
On 5 August 1781, the ''Batavier'' took part in the [[Battle of Dogger Bank]] under captain [[Wolter Jan Gerrit Bentinck]]. The ''Batavier'' sailed in the middle of the Dutch line, between the ships [[Dutch ship Admiraal de Ruyter|Admiraal de Ruyter]] and [[Dutch ship Argo|Argo]]. She was attacked by 3 British ships, and became steerless after a fire broke out. Neither the British nor the Dutch were victorious in the battle, and afterwards the ''Batavier'' was towed to Texel. Bentinck later died of the wounds he'd received. <ref>http://www.regiocanons.nl/overijssel/salland/raalte/bentinck-</ref>
  
In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the [[Batavian Navy]].

On 11 October 1797 the ''Batavier'' took part in the [[Battle of Camperdown]] under captain [[Jan Jacob Souter]]. Early in the battle, the ship was under heavy fire, but soon she drifted off, and she eventually left the scene and fled to Texel. <ref>Martinus Stuart. ''Jaarboeken van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, deel 2'' (Amsterdam: E. Maaskamp, 1797), 1373.</ref>

On 30 August 1799 the ship was surrendered to the British during the Vlieter Incident, even though the Batavier was the only ship of the Dutch fleet where no mutiny had broken out. <ref>L.C. Vonk. ''Geschiedenis van de landing van het Engelss-Russische leger in Noord-Holland'' (Haarlem: Francois Bohn, 1801), 58.</ref>

The ship was incorporated into the Royal Navy and served as a [[hospital ship]] at Woolwich from 1809 onward under Lieutenant [[Thomas Dorsett Birchall]], until she was broken up in 1823.<ref>http://www.sailingnavies.com/show_ship.php?nid=1&id=5037</ref>



==References==
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[[:Category:Ships of the line of the Dutch Republic]]
[[:Category:Ships of the line of the Batavian Republic]]
[[:Category:Ships built in the Netherlands]]
[[:Category:1780 ships]]
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