French ship Chatham (1810)

History
France
Name	Chatham
Builder	Glavin, Rotterdam
Laid down	May 1799
Launched	24 May 1800
Completed	1801
Commissioned	July 1810
Fate	Returned to Dutch control 1 August 1814, broken up 1823
General characteristics
Tonnage	1500 tonnes
Displacement	2900 tonnes
Length	61.5 metres (51.8 at the keel)
Beam	14.43 metres
Draught	6.23 metres
Depth	5.94 metres
Complement	18 officers; 650 to 819 men;
Armament	90 guns on three decks of 30 gun ports each

Chatham was a 90-gun ship of the line, lead ship of her class.

Career

Built for the Navy of the Batavian Republic, the ship was incorporated in the French Navy when the First French Empire annexed the country. On 10 July, she was appointed to Missiessy's Escaults squadron.^[2] In April, her armament was reduced by ten guns, removed from the upper deck.^[3]

She was returned to the Dutch Navy in 1814, and was broken up in 1823.^[1]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Winfield, p.61
^ ^a ^b ^c Roche, vol.1, p.112
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Demerliac, p.68, no 471

References

Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 68. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 112. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.