The ''Wolf-'' or ''Fret''-class destroyers, also known as the Roofdier class, lit. "predator",From , "robbery" and , "animal". See wiktionary:Roofdier#Duch, the Wiktionary article for more information. were a class of eight destroyers that were built between 1910 and 1913 for the Royal Netherlands Navy to serve in the Dutch East Indies. They were the first Dutch destroyers built after a British design. The first six ships were built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, Koninklijke Schelde Groep De Schelde shipyards in Vlissingen, and the last two by Fijenoord in Rotterdam. The ships were replaced at the end of the 1920s by the .

Design

The ships displaced and measured in length overall, in breadth, with a draft (hull), draught. They were powered by four Yarrow boilers installed creating steam that produced . They had two Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Krupp-Germania Steam turbine#Marine propulsion, steam turbines that drove two Drive shaft#Marine drive shafts, shafts. The first four ships, , , , and , each carried of coal, the last four, , , , and , carried an additional of fuel oil in addition to the 120 t of coal. This gave the last four ships an additional of endurance. The ships were armed with four 75 mm/52 SA No. 1, /52-caliber (artillery), calibre guns, four /80-calibre machine guns, and two torpedo tubes.

Ships

They are named after mammals of the order (biology), order Carnivora (''Roofdieren'' is a synonym for ''carnivore'' in Dutch (language), Dutch). Their names in English, in the sequence listed, mean: wolf, ferret, bulldog, jackal, Stoat, ermine, lynx, fox and Panthera, panther.

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* {{1890-1920DutchShips Wolf-class destroyers, Destroyers of the Royal Netherlands Navy Destroyer classes