HNLMS Tromp (1937)

Tromp in 1938
History
Netherlands
Name	Tromp
Namesake	Admiral Maarten Tromp
Builder	Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam
Laid down	17 January 1936
Launched	24 May 1937
Commissioned	18 August 1938
Decommissioned	1955
Fate	Scrapped 1969
General characteristics
Class and type	Tromp-class destroyer leader
Displacement	3,400 long tons (3,455 t) standard
Length	132 m (433 ft 1 in)
Beam	12.4 m (40 ft 8 in)
Draught	4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 Parsons geared steam turbines 4 Yarrow boilers 2 shafts 56,000 shp (41,759 kW)
Speed	33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Complement	295–380
Armament	6 × 150 mm (5.9 in) guns (3×2) 4 × 75 mm 8 × 40 mm (4×2) 2 × 20 mm 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2×3)
Armour	Deck: 1.5–2.5 in (38–64 mm) Belt: 1.5 in (38 mm)
Aircraft carried	1 × Fokker C.XIW floatplane

HNLMS Tromp was the lead ship of the Tromp-class destroyer leaders built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Built just prior to World War II, the ship served mainly in the Pacific and Indian Oceans against the Japanese, being based out of Sydney, Fremantle and Trincomalee where she served alongside British, Australian and US warships. After the war, she returned to the Netherlands; after 1949, Tromp was used as a training and accommodation ship, before being decommissioned in 1955, and scrapped in 1969.