Royal Netherlands Navy — Destroyer class
Admiralen-class destroyer
Admiralen class
The class in numbers
- 8 Completed
- 8 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Netherlands Navy
- Built
- 1926–1930
- In commission
- 1928–1942
- Preceded by
- Wolf-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer
- Operators
- Netherlands
- Builders
- Burgerhout
- Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde
- 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
- 1,316 long tons (1,337 t)
- Length
- 98 m (321.5 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 129
First group
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 120 mm no. 4 Bofors guns (4 × 1)
- 2 × 75 mm no. 6 AA guns
- 4 × .5 in Browning machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Second group
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 120 mm no. 5 HIH Siderius guns (4 × 1)
- 1 × 75 mm no. 7 (VG, WW) and no. 8 AA HIH Siderius (BK, VN) guns
- 4 × 40 mm no. 1 Vickers AA guns
- 4 × .5 in Browning machine guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 3)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNLMS Banckert (1929) | 1929 | 1930 | 1945 |
| HNLMS Evertsen (1926) | 1926 | 1928 | 1942 |
| HNLMS Kortenaer (1927) | 1927 | 1928 | Sunk 1942 |
| HNLMS Piet Hein (1927) | 1927 | 1929 | Sunk 1942 |
| HNLMS Van Galen (1928) | 1928 | 1929 | Sunk 1940 |
| HNLMS Van Ghent | 1928 | Scuttled 1942 | |
| HNLMS Van Nes (1930) | 1930 | 1931 | Sunk 1942 |
| HNLMS Witte de With (1928) | 1928 | 1930 | Scuttled 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Admiralen-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.