HNLMS Pieter de Bitter (1936)

History

Netherlands
Name:	HNLMS Pieter de Bitter
Namesake:	Pieter de Bitter
Builder:	P. Smit, Rotterdam
Laid down:	21 March 1936
Launched:	29 October 1936
Commissioned:	26 May 1937
Fate:	Scuttled, 6 March 1942
General characteristics
Class & type:	Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper
Displacement:	460 long tons (467 t)
Length:	56.8 m (186 ft 4 in)
Beam:	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft:	2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Yarrow 3-drum boilers 2 × Stork triple expansion engines, 1,600 ihp (1,193 kW) 2 shafts 110 tons fuel oil
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	45
Armament:	1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun 2 × twin .50-calibre machine guns

HNLMS Pieter de Bitter was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.

Service history

Pieter de Bitter was scuttled at Surabaya on 6 March 1942.

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