HNLMS Jan van Amstel underway
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Class overview | |
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Name | Jan van Amstel class |
Builders | |
Operators | |
Built | 1936–1940 |
In service | 1937–1961 |
Planned | 12 |
Completed | 9 |
Lost | 5 |
Preserved | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Minesweeper |
Displacement | 460 long tons (467 t) |
Length | 56.8 m (186 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 × triple expansion engines |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 45 |
Armament |
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The Jan van Amstel class was a class of nine minesweepers of the Royal Netherlands Navy, built to serve in the Dutch East Indies and Dutch territorial waters in Europe. The class was originally planned to consist of 12 ships, but because of the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War, three of the four ships that were still under construction were never completed.