HNLMS ''Jan van Amstel'' was a of the
Royal Netherlands Navy
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During the 17th century, the navy of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world an ...
that served in
World War II.
Description
The ''Jan van Amstel''-class ships were long, with a
beam
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Streams of particles or energy
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**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of and a
draught of at
deep load. They
displaced was at normal load, which increased to at deep load. A pair of
Yarrow boilers fed steam to two
triple-expansion steam engines that each drove a single
propeller shaft. The engines were rated at which gave the ships a speed of . They carried up to of
fuel oil
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and had a
complement of 45 officers and
ratings.
[Roberts, p. 394; van Willigenburg, p. 106]
Service history
''Jan van Amstel'' was damaged by an air attack at
Surabaya
Surabaya ( jv, ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ or jv, ꦯꦹꦫꦨꦪ; ; ) is the capital city of the Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province of East Java and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. L ...
on 6 March 1942, which killed 23 of her crew.
After the
capitulation of all forces on
Java ''Jan van Amstel'' attempted to escape to Australia, but was intercepted and engaged by the Japanese destroyer
''Arashio'' on 8 March 1942 in the
Madura Strait. She was sunk with heavy loss of life and her surviving crew taken prisoner.
Citations
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Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers
Ships built in Rotterdam
1936 ships
World War II minesweepers of the Netherlands
World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
Maritime incidents in March 1942
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