HNLMS Hertog Hendrik

Hertog Hendrik
History
Netherlands
Name	Hertog Hendrik
Namesake	Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Builder	Rijkswerf in Amsterdam
Laid down	8 March 1901
Launched	7 June 1902
Commissioned	5 January 1904
Recommissioned	21 October 1947
Decommissioned	27 September 1968
Renamed	Batterijschip Vliereede (1939) Hertog Hendrik (1947)
Reclassified	Floating battery ship, 1939 Accommodation ship, 1947
Stricken	28 August 1969
Fate	Scrapped
Nazi Germany
Name	Ariadne
Namesake	Ariadne
Acquired	14 May 1940
Commissioned	1943
Reclassified	Anti-aircraft battery, 1943
Fate	Handed back to the Netherlands after VE Day
General characteristics
Class and type	Koningin Regentes-class coastal defence ship
Displacement	5,002 tons
Length	96.622 m (317 ft 0 in)
Beam	15.189 m (49 ft 10 in)
Draught	5.817 m (19 ft 1 in)
Installed power	6,500 ihp (4,800 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 reciprocating engines
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Complement	340
Sensors and processing systems	as Ariadne FuMO 213
Armament	as Hertog Hendrik 2 × 9.4 in (24 cm) (2 × 1) 4 × 15 cm (5.9 in) (4 × 1) 8 × 7.5 cm (3.0 in) (8 × 1) 4 × 1pdr (4 × 1) 3 × 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes as Ariadne 8 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) (8 × 1) 5 × 4 cm (1.6 in) (2 × 2, 1 × 1) 4 × quad 2 cm (0.79 in)
Armour	6 in (15 cm) belt 10 in (25 cm) barbette 10 in (25 cm) turret

HNLMS Hertog Hendrik (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Hertog Hendrik) was a Koningin Regentes-class coastal defence ship (pantserschip) of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built at the Rijkswerf in Amsterdam at the start of the twentieth century. She was the first ship in the Dutch navy to be equipped with wireless communication. The ship took part in two expeditions to South Celebes and during the Spanish Civil War she performed convoy duties. During World War II she was captured by the invading German forces and converted into an anti-aircraft battery. After the war the ship was recovered and given back to the Netherlands, to be converted into an accommodation ship.