 Schorpioen in Den Helder, Netherlands
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Schorpioen class |
| Operators |  Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Preceded by | HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden |
| Succeeded by | Buffel class |
| Built | 1867–1868 |
| In service | 1867–1908 |
| In commission | 1868–1982 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| Preserved | 1 |
| General characteristics (Schorpioen as completed) | |
| Class and type | Schorpioen-class monitor |
| Displacement | 2,175 long tons (2,210 t) |
| Length | 205 ft (62.5 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 38 ft (11.6 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 2 in (4.9 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 compound-expansion steam engines |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 1,030 nmi (1,910 km; 1,190 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 136 |
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The Schorpioen-class monitors were a pair of ironclad monitors built abroad for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s. They had uneventful careers and were stricken from the Navy List in the first decade of the 20th century. Stier became a target ship and was sunk in 1925. Schorpioen was converted into an accommodation ship in 1909. She was captured by the Germans during World War 2, but survived the war. She remained in service until 1982 and then became a museum ship.