HNLMS De Ruyter in the late 1920s
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History | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Propulsion |
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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 |
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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.