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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

TORPEDO SHIPS

K1 MICHIEL GARDEYN 2nd class torpedo boats (1905)

Names

K1 Michiel Gardeyn

K2 Christiaan Cornelis

K3 Willem Warmont

Builders

Fijenoord, Schiedam: K1 Michiel Gardeyn, K2 Christiaan Cornelis, K3 Willem Warmont

Commissioned

1905: K1 Michiel Gardeyn, K2 Christiaan Cornelis, K3 Willem Warmont

Losses

K2 Christiaan Cornelis (13.5.1940)

Transfers

None

Discarding

1921: K1 Michiel Gardeyn, K3 Willem Warmont

  

Displacement normal, t

47

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.0

Breadth, m

3.60

Draught, m

1.72

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

560

Max speed, kts

18.7

Fuel, t

coal 5

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 - 356 TT (bow)

Complement

12

Project history: Small 2nd class torpedo boats. In days of WWI they were reclassified as patrols, and K2 was converted in 1921 to river gunboat.

Modernizations: 1914-1915, all: - 2 - 356 TT

1921, K2: - 1 x 1 - 37/20

Naval service: K2 Christiaan Cornelis, converted to river gunboat, was damaged by German paratroopers and scuttled at Rotterdam 13.5.1940.

K2 Christiaan Cornelis

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