Name HNLMS Van Speijk Class and type K class sloop Construction started 1939 Length 78 m | Laid down 1939 Beam 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) Launched 22 March 1941 | |
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Fate Sold for scrap, 29 August 1960 Displacement 1,200 long tons (1,219 t) standard
1,420 long tons (1,443 t) full load Builders Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam | ||
HNLMS Van Speijk (K3, later F805) was a K class sloop, designed in the late 1930s to replace the aging Brinio-class gunboats of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Incomplete at the start of the German invasion of the Netherlands and not yet launched, K3 was found undamaged by the German forces. The Kriegsmarine ordered her completion, then commissioned her for service in Norwegian and German home waters.
After the war she was repaired at the Rijkswerf at Amsterdam, then entered Dutch service as the frigate Van Speijk (F805). She mainly served in the Dutch West Indies until she was scrapped in 1960.
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