HNLMS ''Van Speijk'' (''K3'', later ''F805'') was a

sloop A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...

, designed in the late 1930s to replace the aging s of the

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. Incomplete at the start of the German invasion of the Netherlands and not yet launched, ''K3'' was found undamaged by the German forces. The ''

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'' 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

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''Van Speijk'' (F805). She mainly served in the Dutch West Indies until she was scrapped in 1960.

Description

The K-class ships were long, with a

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of and a draught of at deep load. They displaced was at normal load, which increased to at deep load. A pair of diesel engines each drove a single propeller shaft. The engines were rated at which gave the ships a speed of . They carried up to of

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and had a complement of 106 officers and ratings.Roberts, p. 393; van Willigenburg, p. 82

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Speijk (K3) 1941 ships Ships built in Rotterdam Frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy Naval ships of the Netherlands captured by Germany during World War II World War II naval ships of Germany