Cruiser class
HNLMS De Ruyter (1935)
The class in numbers
- 1 Planned
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Preceded by
- Java-class cruiser
- Succeeded by
- De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser
- Builders
- Wilton-Fijenoord
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 7,822 long tons (7,948 t)
- Length
- 170.8 m (560.4 ft)
- Speed
- 33.5 knots (62 km/h, 38.6 mph)
- Complement
- 435
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
- Armament
- 7 × 150 mm guns
- 10 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
- 8 × 12.7 mm machine guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS De Ruyter (1935) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.