HNLMS Van Galen (1928)
Service
- as Van Galen22 October 1929 — 10 May 1940252 days of the war
- Name
- HNLMS Van Galen
- Pennant / hull number
- 1928
- Namesake
- Johan van Galen
- Builder
- Fijenoord
- Laid down
- 28 May 1927
- Launched
- 28 June 1928
- Commissioned
- 22 October 1929
- Fate
- Sunk, 10 May 1940 (1940)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,316 long tons (1,337 t)
- Length
- 98.15 m (322 ft)
- Beam
- 9.53 m (31.3 ft)
- Draught
- 2.97 m (9.7 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 3,200 nmi (5,926 km)
- Complement
- 143
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HNLMS Van Galen was a Admiralen-class destroyer built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. She carried the pennant number 1928. The ship was named after Johan van Galen. Fijenoord laid her keel on 28 May 1927. She entered service on 22 October 1929, having been launched on 28 June 1928.
Her class ran to eight ships. The class followed the Wolf-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,316 long tons. She measured 98.2 m (322 ft) long with a beam of 9.5 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 143.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. She carried one aircraft. Her machinery developed 31,000 shp.
She was in commission for 252 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 10 May 1940. The wreck survives.
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 turbines
- Power
- 3 × Yarrow type boilers
- 31000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 120 mm guns
- 1 × single 75 mm AA gun
- 4 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 4 × single 12.7 mm guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- Aircraft
- 1 × Fokker C.VII-W floatplane
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HNLMS Van Galen (1928) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Centrum voor Audiovisuele Dienstverlening Koninklijke Marine (CAVDKM) — https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/396ba648-bc19-08e4-9d17-64fdf4ee728b/media/58da3a40-6c55-3aa0-848b-21233219da3f — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons