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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

ESCORTS

"A" submarine chasers

"A"

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
"A"   Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam 1939 --- --- cancelled 5/1940
"B"   Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam 1939 --- --- cancelled 5/1940
"C"   Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam 1939 --- --- cancelled 5/1940
"D"   J & K Smit, Kinderdijk 1939 --- --- cancelled 5/1940
"E"   J & K Smit, Kinderdijk 1939 --- --- cancelled 5/1940
"F"   J & K Smit, Kinderdijk 1939 --- --- cancelled 5/1940
unnamed   Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya 1939 --- --- suspended 1941
unnamed   Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya 1939 --- --- suspended 1941
unnamed   Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya 1939 --- --- suspended 1941
unnamed   Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya 1939 --- --- suspended 1941

 

Displacement standard, t

A - F: 390

unnamed: 328

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

A - F: 64.0 wl 65.2 oa

unnamed: 62.5 pp

Breadth, m

A - F: 6.90

unnamed: 6.10

Draught, m

A - F: 1.90

unnamed: 2.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

A - F: Parsons-Stork geared steam turbines, 2 boilers

unnamed: 2 diesels

Power, h. p.

A - F: 5500

unnamed: 5000

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

A - F: oil

unnamed: diesel oil

Endurance, nm (kts)

 

Armament

A - F: 2 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Nr.3, 4 DCT (60)

unnamed: 1 x 1 - 75/55 Krupp Nr.2, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Nr.3, 2 DCT

Sensors

sonar

Complement

49

Ship project history: Special-purpose ASW ships, should be built under original designs. Dutch shipbuilders received order in 1939 but this order was cancelled 14/5/1940. Ships laid down in East Indies all were suspended and in 1942 demolished on the stocks.

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