HNLMS Guinea

Line drawing from Brassey's Naval Annual 1888
History
Netherlands
Name	Guinea
Namesake	Guinea
Builder	Rijkswerf, Amsterdam
Laid down	1867
Launched	5 May 1870
Completed	16 October 1873
Stricken	1897
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1897
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Buffel-class monitor
Displacement	2,198 metric tons (2,163 long tons)
Length	62.68 m (205 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam	12.25 m (40 ft 2 in)
Draught	4.75 m (15 ft 7 in)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) 4 boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 compound-expansion steam engines
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	117–159
Armament	2 × Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns 4 × 30-pounder 4.7 in (120 mm) smoothbore guns
Armour	Belt: 76–152 mm (3–6 in) Gun turrets: 203–280 mm (8–11 in) Conning tower: 144 mm (5.7 in) Deck: 19–25 mm (0.7–1.0 in)

HNLMS Guinea was an Buffel-class monitor built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the early 1870s. Rearmed in 1887 with more modern ordnance, she was sold for scrap in 1897.