The Staaten Generaal was a Dutch 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the navy of the Dutch Republic and the Batavian Republic.The order to construct the ship was given by the Admiralty of the Meuse. The ship was commissioned in 1786. In 1795, the ship was commissioned in the Batavian Navy. British Commodore Sir Home Popham, in a letter published in the London Gazette, reported ”French Ship Atalante, of 40 Guns, and Batavian Ship Bato, of 68 Guns: Destroyed by the Enemy running them on Shore when the Cape was attacked, January 10, 1806.”