The ''Friedland'' was an 80-gun ''Bucentaure''-class

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of the

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, designed by Sané.

Career

Her launching was attended by

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and his wife,

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. She was commissioned in

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under Captain Le Bozec on 4 January 1811, and attributed to the Brest squadron. She was given to Holland with the Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1814. She was renamed ''Vlaming'' and broken up in 1823.Winfield & Roberts p.59

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