| HNLMS Piet Hein (1927) | |
|---|---|
 Piet Hein | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | Piet Hein |
| Namesake: | Piet Hein |
| Laid down: | 26 August 1925 |
| Launched: | 2 April 1927 |
| Commissioned: | 25 January 1929 |
| Fate: | Sunk in the Battle of Badung Strait, 19 February 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Admiralen-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
1,316 long tons (1,337 t) standard 1,640 long tons (1,666 t) full load |
| Length: | 98 m (321 ft 6 in) |
| Beam: | 9.53 m (31 ft 3 in) |
| Draft: | 2.97 m (9 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: |
Parsons geared turbines 3 × Yarrow type boilers 31,000 hp (23 MW) 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 149 |
| Armament: |
• 4 × 4.7 in (120 mm) guns (4×1) • 2 × 3 in (76 mm) AA guns (2×1) • 4 × .50 calibre machine guns • 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) • 24 × mines |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 Fokker floatplane, but no catapult |
HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch language: 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.[1]
On 23 August 1936 Sumatra, her sister Java and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein where present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13 November both Java-class cruisers 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.[2]
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.
References[]
- L, Klemen (1999-2000). "Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942". http://www.dutcheastindies.webs.com/index.html.
Coordinates: 8°40′S 115°20′E / 8.667°S 115.333°E
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