The Zeeland was a Dutch ship of the line of the third charter.

Nine Years' War (1688-1697

The ship was part of a Dutch-British squadron under vice admiral Edward Russel and admiral Philip van Almonde in the Battle of La Hougue against the French fleet. On May 29th, 1692, he commanded the Dutch part, 36 ships strong, of the allied fleet that defeated the attacking French fleet in the naval Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue. Upon this,

The Battle of Lagos was fought during the Nine Years' War on 27 June 1693 (17 June 1693 O.S.), when a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke near Lagos Bay in Portugal. Rooke's squadron was protecting the Smyrna convoy, and it is by this name that the action is sometimes known.

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Convoy to the Mediterranean. 
On June 9th, 1693, a British-Dutch squadron of fourteen ships of the line under the command of admiral Rooke and vice admiral van der Goes was sent to the Mediterranean to accompany a large merchant fleet. It was suspected that the majority of the French fleet would still be in the port of Brest after an earlier defeat. The French got wind of the convoy and a fleet of 70 ships of the line under admiral de Tourville managed to leave Brest unseen and they positioned themselves before the south Portuguese Lagos to intercept the convoy.

Naval battle near Cabo São Vincente

The main convoy met the vanguard of the French fleet on June 26th near Lagos. Rooke thought that he had only encountered a squadron and sailed on. Yet the next morning, it turned out that they were being met with a large amount of French ships. Then the convoy diverted to the southwest.

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The last two of the Dutch warships, the Zeeland and the Wapen van Medemblik under the captains Philip Schrijver and Jan van der Poel, were overtaken by the faster French ships (see Europische Mercurius, 39 under references):

"The Dutch manoeuvred against Gabaret. Two ships with 64 cannon, the Zeeland and the Wapen van Medemblick, fell under the crossfire of the Ardent under captain d'Evry at five o'clock, and of two ships with 92 and 100 cannon, the Victorieux of Gabaret and the Dauphin Royal of Panetié, which forced them to strike their colors."

This was enough to give the other ships of the line and a part of the merchant vessels a chance to escape. Yet at least 50 British and Dutch merchant were sunk and 40 ships were taken. The accompanying warships managed to escape.

Le Zélande

The Zeeland and the Wapen van Medemblik went over in French service, the first as the Zélande. That ship was deployed for instance at the Battle of Malaga (1704) in the War of the Spanish Succession. In that year, the ship was still referenced in a list of the French navy as bon de Compagnie. Two years later, the Zélande is mentioned as a mauvais voillier.*

*) Back then, the French navy used a fixed but not very standardised vocabulary to describe the sailing qualities (qualité du vaisseau) of their ships. So first the ship fell into a good category, but later not any more.

Yard: Amsterdam (admiralty yard?)

Armament: 64 cannon

Crew: ca. 350

It is not clear what the final fate of the ship was after it went over in French possession.

• Europische mercurius IV,II.32,30.
• La Roncière, Charles de.
  Histoire de la marine française, 144.
• Réalisation Jean-Michel Roche. Sources : Archives Nationales.
  La flotte française en 1706.
• Nationaal Archief.
  Staten Generaal.
  1.01.04, 7016, 7084.