Havik was a ship sloop with a quarter deck, built at Amsterdam in 1784 for the Dutch admiralty under the 8th Charter [REF].
At Saldanha Bay a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, under the command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas (1747-21 June 1797), surrendered without a fight to a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone at Saldanha Bay on 17 August 1796.