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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

ESCORTS

"A" submarine chasers

"A"

Name No Yard 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: 2 sets 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 - 75/52 SA Nr.2, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors Nr.3, 2 DCT

Electronic equipment

sonar

Complement

49

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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