HNLMS Piet Hein (1927)

HNLMS Piet Hein (Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was an Admiralen-class destroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Piet Hein.

Service history
The ship was laid down on 26 August 1925 at the shipyard of Burgerhout's Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek in Rotterdam and launched on 2 April 1927. The ship was commissioned on 25 January 1929.

On 23 August 1936 Sumatra, her sister HNLMS Java (1921) and the destroyers HNLMS Van Galen (1928), HNLMS Witte de With (1928) and Piet Hein where present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13 November both s and the destroyers Evertsen, Witte de With and Piet Hein made a fleet visit to Singapore. Before the visit they had practiced in the Chinese Sea.

World War II
She served mostly in the Netherlands East Indies, and when war broke out in 1941 she was at Surabaya. She took part in Battle of Badung Strait in the night of 18-19 February 1942, where she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Asashio, with a loss of 62 men, including its captain J.M.L.I. Chömpff.