Admiraal de Ruyter (ship, 1808)

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Admiraal de Ruyter
Drawing of De Ruyter
Drawing of De Ruyter
Ship data
flag NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Ship type Ship of the line
Commissioning 1808
Whereabouts Retired in 1818
Armament
  • 80 guns

The Admiraal de Ruyter was a Dutch sailing ship of the line from the early 19th century. She entered service in 1808 and was the third ship to be named after the Admiral Michiel de Ruyter .

history

Baptized by King Louis Napoleon in Amsterdam in 1806, De Ruyter entered service under the French flag after the Netherlands had lost its independence a few years earlier . After the King christened the ship in Amsterdam, it was discovered that another new building in Rotterdam also de Ruyter was or should be called. This liner was then renamed Admiraal Piet Heyn after Piet Pieterszoon Heyn .

The Admiraal de Ruyter was armed with 80 cannons. After the regained Dutch independence, the ship was brought to the Dutch East Indies because of its poor construction quality , where it was used by the colonial Dutch navy as a guard ship off Surabaya from 1816 . But already in 1818 the decommissioning of the now decrepit De Ruyter took place.

Technical specifications

literature

  • A. van Dijk: Voor Pampus. De ontwikkeling van de scheepsbouw bij de Koninklijke Marine omstreeks 1860. The Hague 1987.

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