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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

DJEMBER auxiliary minesweepers (1941, 1943/1945)

Fakfak

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Djember HMV19   Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya   1941 1941 scuttled 2.3.1942
Djombang HMV20   Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya   1941 1941 scuttled 2.3.1942, returned by Japan 8.1945, to Indonesia 1950
Digoel     Tandjong Priok Droogdok Mij   1941 1941 scuttled 2.3.1942
Djampea     Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya   1941 1941 scuttled 2.3.1942, salvaged late 1945, to Indonesia 1951
Enggano HMV21   Tandjong Priok Droogdok   1941 1941 scuttled 2.3.1942, returned by Japan 8.1945, to Indonesia 1950
Endeh     Tandjong Priok Droogdok   1941 1941 sunk 2.3.1942
Flores     Tandjong Priok Droogdok   1942 6.1943 // 8.1945 scuttled incomplete 2.3.1942, completed by Japan (第101号掃海特務艇 [101-go]), returned 8.1945, to Indonesia 1950
Fakfak     Tandjong Priok Droogdok   1942 6.1943 // 8.1945 scuttled incomplete 2.3.1942, completed by Japan (第102号掃海特務艇 [102-go]), returned 8.1945, stricken 1951
Grissee     Tandjong Priok Droogdok   1942 8.1943 // --- scuttled incomplete 2.3.1942, completed by Japan (第105号掃海特務艇 [105-go])
Garoet     Tandjong Priok Droogdok   1942 5.1943 // 8.1945 scuttled incomplete 2.3.1942, completed by Japan (第103号掃海特務艇 [103-go]), returned 8.1945, stricken 1951

 

Displacement standard, t

170

Displacement full, t

175

Length, m

32.5 pp 34.7 oa

Breadth, m

5.70

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Enterprise diesel

Djember: 1 Daimler-Benz diesel

Power, h. p.

360

Djember: 350

Max speed, kts

12.5

Djember: 10.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

10 - 14

Project history: Laid down as dispatch vessels for Gouvernementmarine, but during building converted to minesweepers. The design was development of type ABC.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Endeh 2.3.1942 was sunk by Japanese destroyers Matsukaze and Shiokaze at W coast of Java. Remaining ships (including incomplete) were scuttled at Tanjung Priok 1-2.3.1942. Flores, Fakfak, Garoet, Djember, Grissee, Djombang and Enggano were salvaged by Japanese and commissioned by IJN as auxiliary minesweepers Wa101-107. Wa104 (ex-Djember) was sunk 12.4.1945 by British submarine Stygian. Wa105 (ex-Grissee) was sunk 25.5.1945 by British submarine Trenchant. Remaining ships in 1945 were returned to the Netherlands. Flores, Djombang and Enggano in 1950 were transferred to Indonesia. Djampea was salvaged in 1945 and in 1951 transferred to Indonesia.

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