Friedland was an 80-gun Bucentaure-class ship of the line of the French Navy. Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, she was launched in 1810.
Career
Her launching was attended by Napoleon and his wife, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma. She was commissioned in Antwerp under Captain Le Bozec on 4 January 1811, and attributed to the Brest squadron.[1] She was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy as war reparations under the terms the Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1814.[1] Renamed Vlaming, she was broken up in 1823.[2]
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 215. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.
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