HMS Amboyna (1796)

History
Batavian Navy EnsignBatavian Republic
NameHarlingen (Haarlingen, Haalem, or Haerlem)
Captured23 January 1796
Great Britain
NameHMS Amboyna
Acquired23 January 1796 by capture
Commissioned9 March 1796
FateBroken up April 1802
General characteristics [1]
Typebrig
PropulsionSails
Armament
  • Dutch service: 14 guns
  • British service: 10 guns

HMS Amboyna was the Dutch brig Harlingen, which the British captured in the East Indies in 1796. They renamed her Amboyna after their recent capture of Ambon Island. She then served briefly in the Royal Navy before she was broken up in 1802.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 337.