| Batavian Navy | |
|---|---|
| Bataafsche marine | |
 Ensign of the Batavian Navy | |
| Active | 1795–1806 |
| Country | Batavian Republic |
| Branch | Navy |
| Engagements | French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Jan Willem de Winter Johan Arnold Bloys van Treslong Samuel Story Engelbertus Lucas Sr. |
The Batavian Navy (Dutch: Bataafsche marine) was the navy of the Batavian Republic which existed from 1795 to 1806. Founded in May 1795 after the Dutch Republic was overrun by France during the French Revolutionary Wars and transformed into the Batavian Republic, it assumed control over the ships and administrative infrastructure of the Dutch States Navy. The Batavian navy underwent a thorough reorganisation and embarked on several construction programmes in an attempt to match the strength of its main rival, the Royal Navy. Despite this, the British navy inflicted several crushing defeats on the Batavian Navy at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay, Battle of Camperdown and Vlieter incident.
The British also occupied much of the Dutch colonial empire during the French Revolutionary Wars, which the Batavian Navy was powerless to prevent. Despite losing much of its fleet by 1802, the Batavian navy's reorganisations proved to be durable, and it played a role in Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom and efforts to restore Batavian rule in the Dutch colonies returned by Britain under the Treaty of Amiens. However, the Batavian Navy was again unable to prevent Britain from occupying its colonies after the Napoleonic Wars began in 1803. The Batavian Republic became the Kingdom of Holland in June 1806, with the Batavian navy being transformed into the navy of the Kingdom of Holland.