Career (Netherlands) | |
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Name: | HNLMS Van Speijk |
Builder: | P. Smit Jr, Rotterdam |
Laid down: | 1939 |
Launched: | 22 March 1941 |
Fate: | sold for scrap, 29 August 1960 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | sloop |
Displacement: | 1200 tons (standard) 1420 tons (full load) |
Length: | 77.9 m (255 ft 7 in) |
Beam: | 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) |
Draft: | 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) |
Installed power: | 3,500 ihp (2,600 kW) |
Propulsion: | 2 × screws |
Speed: | 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement: | 161-184 |
Armament: | 4 × 12 cm (4.7 in) (2 × 2) 4 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) (2 × 2) 12 × 2 cm (0.79 in) (2x4 and 2x2) |
Armour: | 2 cm (0.79 in) to 3.5 cm (1.4 in) deck 3.7 centimetres (1.5 in) to 6 centimetres (2.4 in) Belt 6 centimetres (2.4 in)Turrets |
HNLMS Van Speijk (K3, later F805) was a K class sloop designed in the late 1930s to replace the aging Brinio-class gunboats of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Incomplete at the start of the German invasion of the Netherlands and not yet launched, K3 was found undamaged by the German forces. The Kriegsmarine ordered her completion, then commissioned her for service in Norwegian and German home waters.
After the war she she was repaired at the Rijkswerf at Amsterdam, then entered Dutch service as the frigate Van Speijk (F805). She mainly served in the Dutch West Indies until she was scrapped in 1960.