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| Name: | HNLMS Jan van Amstel |
| Builder: | P. Smit, Rotterdam |
| Laid down: | 21 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 27 August 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 15 March 1937 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 8 March 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 460 long tons (467 t) |
| Length: | 56.8 m (186 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
| Draft: | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × Yarrow 3-drum boilers 2 × Stork triple expansion engines, 1,600 ihp (1,193 kW) 2 shafts 110 tons fuel oil |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 45 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun • 2 × twin .50-calibre machine guns |
HNLMS Jan van Amstel was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.
Service history
Jan van Amstel was damaged by an air attack at Surabaya on 6 March 1942, which killed 23 of her crew.
After the capitulation of all forces on Java Jan van Amstel attempted to escape to Australia, but was intercepted and engaged by a Japanese destroyer on 8 March 1942 in the Madura Strait. She was sunk with heavy loss of life.
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