How regime change weakened the Batavian fleet before Camperdown

Did the Batavian Republic's replacement of old-regime officers help cause its defeat at Camperdown?

Yes, the purge cost the navy experience and exceptional leadership, although the officers who remained were not simply incompetent.

The regime change removed or drove out many officers associated with the old Dutch Republic, leaving the fleet undermanned and less capable. The officers who remained were not necessarily bad and may still have had more experience than their French and Spanish counterparts. The greater loss was the exceptional leadership that might have made an unlikely victory possible. Camperdown therefore shows how a political purge can weaken a navy even when capable people remain.