HNLMS Tromp (1937)
Tromp-class cruiser destroyer leader
Service
- as Tromp18 August 1938 — 19552,193 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS Tromp
- Pennant / hull number
- 1937
- Namesake
- Admiral Maarten Tromp
- Builder
- Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam
- Laid down
- 17 January 1936
- Launched
- 24 May 1937
- Commissioned
- 18 August 1938
- Decommissioned
- 1955
- Fate
- Scrapped 1969 (1969)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 3,400 long tons (3,455 t)
- Length
- 132 m (433.1 ft)
- Beam
- 12.4 m (40.7 ft)
- Draught
- 4.8 m (15.7 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Complement
- 295
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
HNLMS Tromp was a destroyer of the Tromp-class cruiser destroyer leader built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. She carried the pennant number 1937. She was named for Admiral Maarten Tromp. Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam laid her keel on 17 January 1936. She entered service on 18 August 1938, having been launched on 24 May 1937.
Displacement was 3,400 long tons. She measured 132 m (433 ft) long with a beam of 12.4 m (41 ft). Her designed speed was 33 knots, and she carried a complement of 295.
Her main battery was six 150 mm (5.9 in) guns. She carried one aircraft.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1955.
She was broken up for scrap in 1969.
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 Parsons geared steam turbines
- 4 Yarrow boilers
- 2 shafts
- 56000 shp
- Armament
- 6 × 150 mm guns (3×2)
- 4 × 75 mm
- 8 × 40 mm (4×2)
- 2 × 20 mm
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes (2×3)
- Armour
- Deck: 1.5 - 2.5 in
- Belt: 1.5 in
- Aircraft
- 1 × Fokker C.XIW floatplane
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS Tromp (1937) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Fotoafdrukken Koninklijke Marine — https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/17e6f3f6-10ba-5592-795d-45440ce55b9c/media/9e33cbeb-690a-ce8c-ce83-46af33d33b05 — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons