HNLMS Gelderland (1898)

Gelderland
History
Netherlands
Name	Gelderland
Namesake	Gelderland
Builder	Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord, Rotterdam
Laid down	1 November 1897
Launched	28 September 1898
Commissioned	15 July 1900
Decommissioned	14 May 1940
Fate	Seized by Germany, March 1941
Nazi Germany
Name	Niobe
Namesake	Niobe
Commissioned	1 March 1944
Fate	Sunk by enemy action on 16 July 1944 Raised and scrapped in June 1953
General characteristics
Class and type	Holland-class cruiser
Displacement	4,100 t
Length	94.76 m (310.9 ft)
Beam	14.76 m (48.4 ft)
Draught	5.4 m (18 ft)
Propulsion	Two 3-cycle triple expansion engines 12 Yarrow boilers 2 shafts 10,500 PS
Speed	as Gelderland: 19.5 kn (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) (1914) as Niobe: 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) (1944)
Complement	397
Sensors and processing systems	as Niobe: 2× FlaK-Kommandogeräte (optical range finders) 1× Würzburg radar
Armament	as Gelderland: 2× 150 mm No.3 6× 120 mm No.2 6× 75 mm No.2 8× 37 mm 4× 37 mm revolver guns 2× 75 mm 2× 75 mm mortars as Niobe: 8× 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/32 4× 40 mm Bofors L/60 4× 2 cm (0.79 in) (4×4) Vierlinge C/38

HNLMS Gelderland (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Gelderland) was a Holland-class protected cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. During its career in the Dutch Navy it was most notable for being the ship Queen Wilhelmina sent to Portuguese East Africa to transport Paul Kruger to Europe during the Second Boer War. The ship was taken over by the Germans during World War II, rebuilt as an anti-aircraft cruiser and renamed Niobe. Commissioned into the German navy on 1 March 1944, she was sunk in Kotka harbour in Finland on 16 July 1944.^[1]