HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (1906)
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HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Jacob van Heemskerck) was a unique coastal defence ship[lower-alpha 1] of the Royal Netherlands Navy built by the Rijkswerf in Amsterdam. She was among the ships send to patrol the Venezuelan coast during the Second Castro Crisis. After her active career she was rebuilt into a stationary battery ship and recommissioned. During World War II she was captured by the invading German forces and converted in an anti-aircraft battery. After the war the ship was recovered and given back to the Netherlands, to be converted to an accommodation ship.
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Netherlands | |
Name | Jacob van Heemskerck |
Namesake | Jacob van Heemskerck |
Builder | Rijkswerf, Amsterdam |
Laid down | 1905 |
Launched | 22 September 1906 |
Commissioned | 22 April 1908 |
Recommissioned | 23 February 1948 |
Decommissioned | 13 September 1974 |
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Stricken | 4 October 1974 |
Fate | Scrapped |
Nazi Germany | |
Name | Undine |
Namesake | Undine |
Acquired | 16 July 1940 |
Commissioned | 1943 |
Reclassified | Anti-aircraft battery, 1943 |
Fate | Returned to the Netherlands postwar |
General characteristics | |
Type | Unique coastal defence ship |
Displacement | 4,920 tons |
Length | 98 m (321 ft 6 in) |
Beam | 15.19 m (49 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 5.69 m (18 ft 8 in) |
Installed power | 6,400 hp (4,800 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, reciprocating engines |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
Complement | 340 |
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