List of cruisers of the Netherlands

Unprotected cruiser

• Atjeh class
  • Atjeh (1876)
  • Tromp (1877)
  • Koningin Emma der Nederlanden (ex-De Ruyter) (1879) - Captured by Germany 14-5-1940, scuttled ~1943
  • De Ruyter (1880)
  • Van Speyk (1882)
  • Johan Willem Friso (1886)

Protected cruiser

• Sumatra (1890) - BU 1907
• Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden (1892) - BU 1910
• Holland class
  • Holland (1896) - BU 1920
  • Zeeland (1897) - BU 1924
  • Friesland (1896) - BU 1913
  • Gelderland (1898) - Captured by Germany 1940, renamed Niobe 1943/44, bombed 16-7-1944, BU 1952-53
  • Noordbrabant (1899) - Stricken 1920, fire 17-5-1940, BU ~1940
  • Utrecht (1898) - BU 1913

Light cruisers

• Java class
  • Sumatra (1920) - Scuttled as a breakwater at Mulberry harbour during the D-day landings, 9-6-1944
  • Java (1921) - Sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, 27-2-1942
  • HNLMS Celebes - Planned but never completed
• De Ruyter class
  • HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) - Sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea, 1942
• Tromp class
  • HNLMS Tromp (1937) - Decommissioned in 1955, sold for scrap in 1969
  • Jacob van Heemskerk (1939) - completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser^[1] - Decommissioned in 1969, sold for scrap in 1970
• Zeven Provinciën class
  • HNLMS De Ruyter (1944) - completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser^[2] - Sold to Peru in 1973 and renamed Almirante Grau
  • Zeven Provinciën (1950) - completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser^[3] - Sold to Peru in 1976 and renamed Aguirre

Notes

See also

• List of monitors of the Netherlands
• List of battleships of the Netherlands