HNLMS ''Holland'' ( nl, Hr.Ms. Holland) was a

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of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Design

The ship was Staatsbegrooting voor het dienstjaar 1903, Bijlage A . VI. 5./ref> long, had a beam of , a draught of , and had a displacement of 3,900 ton. The ship was equipped with 2 shaft

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s, which were rated at and produced a top speed of . The ship had a deck armour of . Two single turret guns provided the ship's main armament, and these were augmented by six single guns and four single guns. The ship had a complement of 324 men.

Service history

''Holland'' was built at the '' Rijkswerf'' in Amsterdam and launched on 4 October 1896. The ship was commissioned on 1 July 1898. She left the port of Den Helder on 7 January for the Dutch East Indies. In 1900 the ship together with the coastal defence ship and the protected cruiser was sent to

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to safeguard European citizens and Dutch interests in the region during the Boxer Rebellion. A landing party from ''Holland'' assisted in the defense of the

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where many Dutch citizens where present. She and ''Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden'' returned in the middle of October that year to the Dutch East Indies. In 1910 the ship together with escorted that had hit a cliff on 31 May while en route to Surabaya. The collision caused the flooding of several compartments of the ship. Damaged as she was, ''Noordbrabant'' could continue to steam on her own. The ship was sent in 1911 again to

to protect European citizens at the time of the fall of Imperial China. ''Holland'' arrived on 4 November that year. In 1912 she was sent to represent the Dutch queen at the funeral of the Japanese emperor Meiji in

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. The ships was decommissioned in 1920.

Notes

References

*Staatsbegrooting voor het dienstjaar 1903
2. VI. 5.
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