HNLMS ''Eland Dubois'' was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in

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Description

The ''Jan van Amstel''-class ships were long, with a beam of and a draught of at

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. They displaced was at normal load, which increased to at deep load. A pair of

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s fed steam to two triple-expansion steam engines that each drove a single

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. The engines were rated at which gave the ships a speed of . They carried up to of fuel oil and had a

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of 45 officers and ratings.Roberts, p. 394; van Willigenburg, p. 106

Service history

''Eland Dubois'' was

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in the

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on 8 March 1942 after faulty boilers made it impossible for her to reach the safety of Australia. After sinking their ship the crew transferred to the , which was sunk with heavy loss of life later the same day.

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* * Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers 1936 ships World War II minesweepers of the Netherlands World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean Maritime incidents in March 1942 Ships built by Gusto Shipyard Scuttled vessels {{netherlands-mil-ship-stub