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Willem van der Zaan

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Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Willem van der Zaan	M08, 1946- ML2, 1950- F824, 1953- N82	68	Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam	1.1938	15.12.1938	8.1939	frigate 11.1950, minelayer 1953, minesweeper tender 1.1961

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1247
Displacement full, t	1407
Length, m	70.0 pp 75.2 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.28 normal 3.90 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	2200
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	oil 225
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 120/50 Wilton-Fijenoord Nr.7, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Nr.3, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 120 mines, 1 seaplane (C.XIW)
Complement	92

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Project history

Last Dutch purpose-built minelayer and one of the best minelayers in the world. As well as the majority of predecessors, Willem van der Zaan was designed as double-purpose ship: minelayer and training ship, capable to accommodate 40 cadets, but differed by strengthened armament. 120mm/50 guns had rigorous fire control system. AA armament consisted from 2 twin 40mm/56 Bofors MGs with individual Hazemeyer directors, foremost for time and not having analogues in the world. On the covered mine deck ship can carry up to 120 mines. Amidships there was an area for seaplane, for which handling the crane at aft part of a superstructure was used.

Modernizations 7.

1940: - 2 x 2 - 40/56; + 1 x 4 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 2 DCR, sonar; mine capacity was decreased to 90 British-produced mines

1940s: + radars

1950: - 1 x 4 - 40/39, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 1 seaplane; + 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 9, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

Naval service

13.11.1950 Willem van der Zaan was reclassified to frigate. In the early 1961 she was converted to minesweeper support ship, since September 1963 non-self-propelled. Ship was stricken 27.2.1970 and sold on demolition 6.10.1970.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.