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|Ship laid down= 21 March 1936 |
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| Name: | HNLMS Pieter de Bitter |
| Namesake: | Pieter de Bitter |
| Builder: | P. Smit, Rotterdam |
| Laid down: | 21 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 29 October 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 26 May 1937 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 6 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 Pieter de Bitter was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.
Service history
Pieter de Bitter was scuttled at Surabaya on 6 March 1942.
The original article can be found at HNLMS Pieter de Bitter (1937) and the edit history here.