Name Piet Hein Laid down 26 August 1925 Construction started 26 August 1925 Length 98 m | Namesake Piet Hein Commissioned 25 January 1929 Launched 2 April 1927 | |
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Fate Sunk in the Battle of Badung Strait, 19 February 1942 Class and type Admiralen-class destroyer | ||
HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was an Admiralen-class destroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Piet Hein.
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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.
On 23 August 1936 Sumatra, her sister Java and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein were 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 practised in the South China Sea.
On 13 October 1938 she collided with the cruiser Java in the Sunda Strait. Java had to be repaired at Surabaya.
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 64 men, including its captain J.M.L.I. Chömpff.