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Dutch frigate Alliantie (1788)

History
Dutch Navy Ensign Batavian Navy EnsignDutch Republic & Batavian Republic
Name: Alliantie
Builder: Admiralty, Amsterdam
Launched: 20 June 1788
Captured: 1795
Royal Navy EnsignUK
Name: HMS Alliance
Acquired: 1795 by capture
Honours and
awards:		 Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Acre"
Fate: Sold 1802
General characteristics
Type: Frigate; 6th Charter (sixth rate)
Tons burthen: 696 81⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 139’  8⁄11” (lower deck; Amsterdam foot)
  • 130 ft 9 in (39.9 m) (length overall
Beam:
  • 37’  8⁄11” (Amsterdam foot)
  • 34 ft 10 in (10.6 m)
Draught: 15’  8⁄11” (Amsterdam foot)
Depth of hold:
  • 15’  8⁄11” (Amsterdam foot)
  • 12 ft 11 in (3.9 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Complement:
  • British service (frigate): 215
  • British service (storeship): 121
Armament:
  • Dutch service:
    • 36 x 12-pounder guns
  • British service (frigate):
    • Upper deck (UD): 26 x12-pounder guns
    • QD: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 24-pounder carronades
    • Fc: 2 x 6-pounder guns
  • British service (storeship):
    • 14 x 6-pounder guns (UD)

The Dutch frigate Alliantie was launched in 1788 at Amsterdam. HMS Stag captured her in 1795 and the British Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Alliance. The Admiralty converted her to a storeship shortly after her capture and fitting. She participated at the siege of Acre in 1799 with the result that her crew qualified for the Naval General Service Medal issued in 1847. She was sold in 1802.

In 1795, French cavalry captured Alliantie during the French capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder. In February 1795, she received a French crew, but probably remained too undermanned to be serviceable. In May, the Batavian Republic signed a peace and alliance treaty with France, and the French returned Alliantie against payment.

On 22 August 1795 a squadron of four British Royal Navy frigates consisting of Reunion, Stag, Isis, and Vestal, encountered two frigates and a cutter from the Navy of the Batavian Republic. The engagement was fought off the Norwegian coastal island of Eigerøya, then in Danish Norway.

At 16:15 the leading British ship, Stag, under Captain Joseph Sydney Yorke, caught and engaged the rearmost Batavian ship, the Alliante; the remainder of the British squadron continued in pursuit of the Batavian squadron. For an hour Alliante held out against the more powerful Stag but eventually struck. The remainder of the Batavian squadron escaped due to a fierce rearguard action by the frigate Argo, safely reaching Eigerøya.


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