Free Batavian Navy
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| Active: | 1685 AN |
| Allegiance: | United Benacian Republic |
| Personnel: | 150,800 active duty personnel |
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| Type: | Navy |
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| Nickname: | None yet |
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| Current Commander: | Admiral-General Isor Verion |
The Free Batavian Navy (Bat: Vrije Bataafsche Marine) was the naval component of the United Benacian Defence Force (Bat: Verenigde Benacische Weermacht) formed from those elements of the Iron Fleet stationed in Benacian harbours who had come over to the United Benacian Republic following the collapse of Gran Verionia in 1685 AN. Comprised of a near third of the Iron Fleet's former strength, the Free Batavian Navy represented - on paper - a potent force in being whose battle effectiveness had been amply demonstrated during the Verionian-Raspur War. In spite of this, the vulnerability of Navy's key ports of Chryse and Nieuw Ingelheim to land and air bombardment by the forces of the Raspur Pact, combined with the vast swathe of hostile, Raspurid held, continental shoreline separating the two ports, in large measure negated its good theoretical strengths.
As such it is the submarine arm, based out of Chryse, which is considered to be the most formidable threat to any opposing naval force, providing that those same submarines are able to slip out to sea undetcted.
In the years prior to the Verionian-Raspur War the Iron Company, funded by the corrupt Mackay government of Batavia, had built up a not inconsiderable armada of 108 surface combatant vessels of various types and 54 submarines. With the unravelling of Gran Verionia however only those vessels in Benacian ports, whose commanders heeded the call of Isor Verion remained in commission after the events of 1684-1685 AN.
On 24.IV.1685 Isor Verion received the Loyal Address of the loyalist Verionist officers in the garrison of the city of Chryse and acclamation of the crews of the ships of the Iron Fleet in its harbour, after which he accepted the title of Admiral-General of the Free Batavian Navy. With leadership and safe-harbour guaranteed in Chryse and the free sovereign territory of Lower Batavia, together combined in the United Benacian Republic, the remaining Batavian ships who had, by following the Verionist banner into various exiles, escaped falling into the clutches of the Franks following their takeover of the ancestral homeland, would now be able to reorganise.
Vessels
| Hull Number | Name | Type | Class | Commissioned | Fleet | Division | Station |
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| LPD-11 | IFS Escobar | Amphibious transport dock | Escobar | 1673 | Second | Expeditionary Strike Group | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| LPD-16 | IFS Felix | Amphibious transport dock | Escobar | 1679 | Second | Expeditionary Strike Group | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| CG-21 | IFS Port Impregnable | Cruiser | Calbion | 1646 | Second | Expeditionary Strike Group | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| CG-22 | IFS Batavia | Cruiser | Batavia | 1655 | Second | Expeditionary Strike Group | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| CG-23 | IFS Kasterburg | Cruiser | Batavia | 1660 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| CG-29 | IFS Puerto Arcadio | Cruiser | Los Liberados | 1671 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| CG-31 | IFS Augusto | Cruiser | Los Liberados | 1679 | Second | 2nd Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| DD-37 | IFS Mann | Destroyer | Zweig | 1650 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| DD-38 | IFS Rilke | Destroyer | Zweig | 1650 | Second | 2nd Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| DD-39 | IFS Kafka | Destroyer | Zweig | 1652 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| DD-40 | IFS Zweig | Destroyer | Zweig | 1652 | Second | 2nd Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| DD-54 | IFS Conrad | Destroyer | Faulkner | 1667 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| DD-59 | IFS Garcia | Destroyer | Allende | 1669 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| DD-60 | IFS Márquez | Destroyer | Allende | 1669 | Second | 2nd Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| DD-61 | IFS Bolaño | Destroyer | Allende | 1670 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| DD-62 | IFS Fuentes | Destroyer | Allende | 1670 | Second | 2nd Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| DD-71 | IFS Lorca | Destroyer | Allende | 1675 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| DD-74 | IFS Pitol | Destroyer | Allende | 1676 | Sixth | 1st Division | Chryse |
| MCV-83 | IFS Estefan | Mine countermeasures vessel | Estefan | 1670 | Second | Harbour Defence | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| MCV-84 | IFS Bravo | Mine countermeasures vessel | Estefan | 1670 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| MCV-85 | IFS Charvaz | Mine countermeasures vessel | Estefan | 1673 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| MCV-86 | IFS Banderas | Mine countermeasures vessel | Estefan | 1673 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| MCV-87 | IFS Verales | Mine countermeasures vessel | Estefan | 1673 | Second | Harbour Defence | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| PC-93 | IFS Justice | Patrol ship | Justice | 1668 | Second | Harbour Defence | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| PC-94 | IFS Righteousness | Patrol ship | Justice | 1668 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| PC-95 | IFS Faith | Patrol ship | Justice | 1670 | Second | Harbour Defence | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| PC-96 | IFS Compassion | Patrol ship | Justice | 1671 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| PC-97 | IFS Severity | Patrol ship | Justice | 1671 | Second | Harbour Defence | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| PC-98 | IFS Composure | Patrol ship | Justice | 1671 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| PC-105 | IFS Truth | Patrol ship | Justice | 1680 | Sixth | Harbour Defence | Chryse |
| SSB-111 | IFS Chaboud | Ballistic missile submarine | Shazar | 1678 | Sixth | 11th Squadron | Chryse |
| SSG-114 | IFS Alborada | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-115 | IFS Inviernes | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-116 | IFS Primavera | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-117 | IFS Otoño | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-118 | IFS Verano | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-119 | IFS Estio | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-120 | IFS Crepúsculo | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1679 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-121 | IFS Ocaso | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1680 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-122 | IFS Anochecer | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1680 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SSG-123 | IFS Vespertino | Cruise missile submarine | Alborada | 1680 | Sixth | 7th Division | Chryse |
| SS-129 | IFS Rita | Attack submarine | Grace | 1672 | Second | 8th Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| SS-133 | IFS Emma | Attack submarine | Grace | 1672 | Second | 8th Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| SS-136 | IFS Sharon | Attack submarine | Grace | 1673 | Second | 8th Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| SS-140 | IFS Barbra | Attack submarine | Barbra | 1674 | Second | 8th Division | Nieuw Ingelheim |
| SS-145 | IFS Jeanne | Attack submarine | Barbra | 1676 | Sixth | 9th Division | Chryse |
| SS-150 | IFS Maria | Attack submarine | Barbra | 1674 | Sixth | 9th Division | Chryse |
| SS-153 | IFS Thelma | Attack submarine | Barbra | 1679 | Sixth | 9th Division | Chryse |
| SS-154 | IFS Lauren | Attack submarine | Barbra | 1679 | Sixth | 9th Division | Chryse |
