HMS Nassau

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Nassau, 1805 (1801)
Type: 3d Rate ; Armament 64
Disposal Date : 1814
Notes:

1805 Holstein (taken at Copenhagen 1801), renamed Nassau.

Doubled and sheathed &c.with 2-inch stuff from gundeck ports to keel

Yarmouth 2 Jan 1807 Remains in Yarmouth Roads.

26 Jul 1807 departed as a part of a fleet of 38 vessels for Copenhagen and was present from 15 Aug - 20 Oct for the siege and bombardment of Copenhagen and capture of Danish Fleet by Adm. Gambier. 1 Aug employed in the Great Belt, preventing Danish troops crossing to Zealand.

22 Mar 1808 Stately, and Nassau captured the Danish 74-gun ship Prindts-Christian-Frederic on the Jutland coast, which subsequently went aground and was destroyed.

6 Jun 1809 captured the French privateer Jean Bart.