| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Poolster | Tandjong Priok Droogdok Mij, Batavia | 26.5.1938 | 3.2.1939 | 23.10.1939 // 1940 | scuttled 1.3.1942 |
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Displacement standard, t |
|
|
Displacement full, t |
1565 |
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Length, m |
74.7 |
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Breadth, m |
12.0 |
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Draught, m |
3.00 |
|
No of shafts |
1 |
|
Machinery |
1 MAN / J & K Smit diesel |
|
Power, h. p. |
1250 |
|
Max speed, kts |
12 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp No.1, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 1 Do 24K-1 seaplane |
| Complement | 90 |
Project history: Former buoy tender for Gouvernements Marine. In 1940 Poolster was transferred to Navy and converted to tender for large flying boats Do 24K and MTBs.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Poolster was scuttled at Batavia 1.3.1942. Later she was raised by Japanese and commissioned by IJN 1.9.1943 as salvage vessel Horei Maru. Vessel was hard damaged by American aircraft of TF.38 at San Fernando (Luzon) 15.1.1945, and finally sunk 4.4.1945 by American B-25 bombers at Mako (Formoza).
Poolster
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