HNLMS Van Ghent (1926)

HNLMS De Ruyter in the late 1920s
History
Name	Van Ghent
Namesake	Willem Joseph van Ghent
Builder	Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde
Laid down	28 August 1925
Launched	23 October 1926
Commissioned	31 May 1928
Renamed	Van Ghent, 1934
Fate	Scuttled 15 February 1942
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Admiralen-class destroyer
Displacement	1,316 long tons (1,337 t) standard 1,640 long tons (1,666 t) full load
Length	98.15 m (322 ft 0 in)
Beam	9.53 m (31 ft 3 in)
Draft	2.97 m (9 ft 9 in)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow type boilers 31,000 hp (23 MW)
Propulsion	2 × Parsons geared turbines[2] 2 × shafts
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	149
Armament	4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (4×1) 2 × 75 mm (3 in) AA guns 4 × .5 in (13 mm) machine guns 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2×3)
Aircraft carried	1 × Fokker C.VII-W floatplane
Aviation facilities	crane

HNLMS Van Ghent (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Van Ghent) (originally named De Ruyter) was an Admiralen-class destroyer built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1920s. The destroyer served in the Netherlands East Indies but was wrecked after running aground in 1942.