HNLMS Evertsen (1926)

HNLMS Evertsen (Hr.Ms. Evertsen) was a Admiralen-class destroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was destroyed by ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 1 March 1942, during the Battle of Sunda Strait.

Service history
The ship was laid down on 5 August 1925 at the Burgerhout's Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek in Rotterdam and launched on 29 December 1926. The ship was commissioned on 12 April 1928.

She and her sister De Ruyter left the Netherlands on 27 September 1928 for the Dutch East Indies.

On 31 August 1929 she participates in a fleet review at Tanjung Priok. The review was held in honor of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who was born that day. Other ships that participated in the review where the destroyer De Ruyter and the cruiser HNLMS Java (1921). 29 July that year Evertsen her sister De Ruyter, the cruiser Java and the submarines HNLMS K II and HNLMS K VII left Surabaya and steamed to Tanjung Priok. At Tanjung Priok the ships waited for the royal yacht Maha Chakri of the king of Siam and the destroyer Phra Ruang. After this the ships without the submarines visited Bangka, Belitung, Riau, Lingga Islands, Belawan and Deli. On 28 August that year they returned in Tanjung Priok.

While practicing with the cruiser HNLMS Sumatra (1920), her sister De Ruyter and five submarines the Sumatra stranded on a reef near the island Kebatoe that was not on the map on 14 May 1931. Sumatra was later pulled lose by HNLMS Soemba and a tugboat.

On 13 November 1936 Sumatra, Java and the destroyers Evertsen, HNLMS Witte de With (1928) and HNLMS Piet Hein (1927) made a fleet visit to Singapore. Before the visit they had practiced in the Chinese Sea.

World War II
From 1940 to 1942 she served as convoy escort. She was destroyed by ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 1 March 1942, during the Battle of Sunda Strait.