HNLMS ''Hertog Hendrik'' ( nl, Hr.Ms. Hertog Hendrik) was a (''pantserschip'') of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built at the '' Rijkswerf'' in Amsterdam at the start of the twentieth century. She was the first ship in the Dutch navy to be equipped with wireless communication. The ship took part in two expeditions to South

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and during the

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she performed convoy duties. During

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she was captured by the invading German forces and converted into an anti-aircraft battery. After the war the ship was recovered and given back to the Netherlands, to be converted into an accommodation ship.

Design

The ship was long, had a

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of , a draught of , and had a displacement of 5,002 tons. The ship was equipped with 2-shaft

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s, which were rated at and produced a top speed of . Her

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was thick, while she also had of barbette armour and turret armour. Two single turret guns provided the ship's main armament, and these were augmented by four single guns and eight single guns. The ship had a complement of 340 men.

Service history

''Hertog Hendrik'' was laid down on 8 March 1901 by the Dutch Queen Mother,

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at the '' Rijkswerf'' in Amsterdam. The ship was launched and christened there by,

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on 7 June 1902. She was commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy on 5 January 1904 and the first ship in the Dutch navy to be equipped with wireless communication. The ship left Den Helder on 9 November 1904 for the Dutch East Indies. Shortly after she had departed she send the first Dutch wireless telegram. On 24 June 1905 ''Hertog Hendrik'' hit a

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near Matjidosteen while en route to the

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. The cruiser made several attempts to pull the stranded ship loose, but these proved unsuccessful and were abandoned when ''Zeeland''s bollards broke. The ship was later pulled clear after her sister ship and ''Japara'', a ship with towing equipment from the '' Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij'', arrived and ''Hertog Hendrik''s coal, reserves and munitions were offloaded. Later that year the ship took part in two expeditions to South

. The first expedition was undertaken against the lord of Boni. Armed sloops of ''Hertog Hendrik'', ''Zeeland'' and protected the landing of Dutch forces near Patiro on 20 July 1905. During the second expedition on 11 September ''De Ruyter'', ''Hertog Hendrik'', , and two ships of the ''Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij'' where engaged in operations against the lord of Loewoe an ally of the lord of Boni. An infantry battalion and a marine landing party were set ashore near Palopo and later that day the soldiers and marines took the lord's palace. In 1910 the ship together with the cruiser escorted another cruiser, , that had hit a cliff on 31 May while en route to Surabaya. The collision caused the flooding of several compartment of the ship. Damaged as she was, ''Noordbrabant'' continued to sail without aid. Later that year the ship undertook a cruise to Australia to

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