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Adder-class monitor

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The Adder-class monitors were a group of six ironclad monitors built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1870s.

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Context

The Adder class monitors very much resembled the preceding Heiligerlee class. There were some small differences, but the main difference was that the Adder class got a ram, which was very popular after the Battle of Lissa.

Haai would become the first monitor to be built by a private Dutch shipyard.

Armament

Just like the preceding Heiligerlee class, the Adders were armed with two 23 cm Armstrong rifled muzzle loaders. Luipaard differed by having only a single Krupp 28 cm breechloader, known as 28 cm A No. 1.[1]

Later all ships of the class were re-armed with the 28 cm A No. 1, except Adder, which sank beforehand.

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