High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Wilhelmina was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was previously a Dutch ship and had been built in 1787 for the Dutch Republic as the Wilhelmina. Renamed Furie in 1795, after the establishment of the Batavian Republic as a client state of the First French Empire, she, like other Dutch ships, was pressed into service to support Napoleon's plans to conquer the British Isles. The British captured her and the Dutch corvette Waakzaamheid in 1798 while the two were trying to support French and Irish forces involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The Royal Navy took both into service, with the Furie regaining her original name. Sailing as HMS Wilhelmina, she spent the bulk of her later career in the East Indies, serving mostly as a troopship. Here she fought an unequal battle against a large French privateer, and succeeded in driving her off and protecting a merchant she was escorting. Wilhelmina was almost the ship that faced...