HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes (G16)
N-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Nonpareil2,193 days of the war
- as HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes30 October 1942 — 1 March 19511,040 days of the war
- as KRI Gadjah Mada1 March 1951 — 1961
- Name
- HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes
- Pennant / hull number
- G16
- Builder
- William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
- Laid down
- 22 May 1940
- Launched
- 25 June 1941
- Commissioned
- 30 October 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1961 (1961)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,773 long tons (1,801 t)
- Length
- 108.51 m (356 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 183
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes was a N-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G16. Her keel was laid at William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton on 22 May 1940. She entered service on 30 October 1942, having been launched on 25 June 1941.
Displacement was 1,773 long tons. She measured 108.5 m (356 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 183.
Her main battery was six 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in three twin mountings. Her machinery developed 40,000 shp through two shafts.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Nonpareil. She then passed to the Royal Netherlands Navy, serving as HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes from 30 October 1942. She was in commission for 3,233 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1961.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 40000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × single 4 in (102 mm) AA gun
- 4 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 2 × twin 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machineguns
- 1 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × depth charge rack, 2 × throwers; 45 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes (G16) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Fotoafdrukken Koninklijke Marine — https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/7ae61d6a-a46b-0c9c-d380-4b71b24bb556/media/503bfa60-6078-3870-d3c7-40f03bf2bbc8 — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons