HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst (1937)
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| Career (Netherlands) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst |
| Namesake: | Abraham van der Hulst |
| Builder: | Gusto, Schiedam |
| Laid down: | 13 November 1936[1] |
| Launched: | 31 May 1937[1][2] |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1937[1] |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 14 May 1940[2] |
| Career (Germany) |  |
| Name: | M 553 |
| Commissioned: | 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | April 1944 |
| Fate: | Destroyed during an air raid, 20 August 1944 |
| General characteristics [3] | |
| Class and type: | Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 450 long tons (457 t) standard 585 long tons (594 t) |
| Length: | 56.70 m (186 ft 0 in) oa 55.80 m (183 ft 1 in) pp |
| Beam: | 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) |
| Draft: | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Yarrow 3-drum boilers 2 × Stork triple expansion engines, 1,690 ihp (1,260 kW) 2 shafts 110 tons fuel oil |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 46 |
| Armament: | • 1 × 75 in (1,900 mm) gun • 2 × twin 12.7 mm machine guns |
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HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1930s. The German invasion of the Netherlands resulted in the ship being scuttled at Enkhuizen on 14 May 1940, but was raised by the Germans and entered service as the Minesweeper M.553 with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.[3] Sunk by a mine off East Prussia, 21 April. 1944. Raised later. One source says she was returned to the Netherlands post war.
References
- "German Minesweepers Netherlandish". Warshipsww2.Eu. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- Gardiner, Robert and Roger Chesneau. Conway's All The World's Fighting Warships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Lenton, H.T. German Warships of the Second World War. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1975. ISBN 0-356-04661-3.
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