 HNLMS Buffel in 2008
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| History | |
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 Netherlands | |
| Name | Buffel |
| Namesake | Water buffalo |
| Builder | Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Laid down | 10 June 1867 |
| Launched | 10 March 1868 |
| Completed | 22 July 1868 |
| Reclassified | As an accommodation ship, 11 June 1896 |
| Stricken | 1896 |
| Captured | May 1940 |
 Nazi Germany | |
| Acquired | May 1940 |
| Captured | 8 May 1945 |
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Buffel |
| Acquired | 8 May 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 1973 |
| Stricken | 1974 |
| Homeport | Den Helder |
| Identification |
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| Status | Museum ship, 1974 |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Class and type | Buffel-class monitor |
| Displacement | 2,402 long tons (2,441 t) |
| Length | 195 ft 10 in (59.7 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 40 ft (12.2 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 9 in (5.1 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 steam engines |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 159 |
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HNLMS Buffel is a 19th-century ironclad ram ship. She was one of the main attractions of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, also known as the Prince Hendrik Museum, named after its founder, Prince Henry (Hendrik) "The Navigator", who had a naval career and established the basis of the museum back in 1874. In October 2013 the ship moved to Hellevoetsluis and is again open for public.