Namesake Abraham van der Hulst Commissioned 11 October 1937 Name M 553 Builder Schiedam | Laid down 13 November 1936 Fate Scuttled, 14 May 1940 Launched 21 May 1937 | |
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Name HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst | ||
HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1930s. The German invasion of the Netherlands resulted in the ship being scuttled at Enkhuizen on 14 May 1940, but was raised by the Germans and entered service as the Minesweeper M.553 with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Sunk by a mine off East Prussia, 21 April 1944. Raised later. One source says she was returned to the Netherlands post war.
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