The Vlieter surrender compounds Camperdown

On 30 August 1799, the incident transferred eight ships of the line, three frigates, and a sloop without a fleet battle. Set only twenty-two months after Camperdown, it meant the Batavian Navy had lost seventeen ships of the line in two blows, far faster than replacements could be built. Vlieter did not destroy every Dutch capital ship, but it removed enough strength to make another Camperdown-scale action unlikely during the War of the Second Coalition. The result reduced pressure on Britain in northern waters and made the fate of other European fleets, especially Denmark's, more important.