Cruiser class
De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Cruiser
- Built
- 1939–1953
- In commission
- 1953–2017
- Preceded by
- HNLMS De Ruyter (1935)
- Succeeded by
- Tromp-class frigate
- Operators
- Netherlands
- Builders
- Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij
- 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
- 11,850 long tons (12,040 t)
- Length
- 187.32 m (614.6 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 973
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
- Armament
- 8 × 152 mm main guns
- 8 × 57 mm AA guns (4x2)
- 8 × 40 mm AA guns
Sources
- Facts harvested from De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.