 Koning der Nederlanden in Singpapore dock
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| History | |
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| Name | Koning der Nederlanden |
| Namesake | King of the Netherlands |
| Builder | Rijkswerf, Amsterdam |
| Cost | 3,220,170 florins |
| Laid down | 31 December 1871 |
| Launched | 28 October 1874 |
| Commissioned | 16 February 1877 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1895 |
| Reclassified | 1 December 1899 as accommodation and guard ship |
| Fate | Scuttled 2 March 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ironclad turret ship |
| Displacement | 5,400 metric tons (5,300 long tons) |
| Length | 268 ft 4 in (81.8 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 49 ft 10 in (15.2 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft 3 in (5.9 m) |
| Installed power | 4,630 ihp (3,450 kW) |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 256 |
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HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden[a] was an iron-hulled ironclad ramtorenschip[1] (turret ram ship) built by the Rijkswerf at Amsterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the early 1870s. She was the largest ship to serve in the Dutch Navy during the 19th century. The ship was converted to a barracks ship in the late 1890s and stationed in Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies. Koning der Nederlanden was scuttled in Surabaya on 2 March 1942, during the Battle of Java, to prevent her capture by the Japanese.
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