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Banckert Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Van Galen	VG	307	Fijenoord (Wilton-Fijenoord), Schiedam	5.1927	28.6.1928	10.1929	sunk 10.5.1940
Witte de With	WW	308	Fijenoord (Wilton-Fijenoord), Schiedam	5.1927	11.9.1928	2.1930	scuttled 2.3.1942
Banckert	BK		Burgerhout`s, Rotterdam	8.1928	14.11.1929	11.1930	scuttled 2.3.1942
Van Nes	VN		Burgerhout`s, Rotterdam	8.1928	30.3.1930	3.1931	sunk 17.2.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1316
Displacement full, t	1650
Length, m	93.6 pp 98.2 oa
Breadth, m	9.53
Draught, m	2.97
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	31000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 330
Endurance, nm(kts)	3300(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/50 Wilton-Fijenoord No.5, 1 x 1 - 75/52 SA No.2, 4 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT (12), 1 seaplane (C.VIIW)
Complement	120

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Project history

The second series of "Admiralen" type destroyers, built under Yarrow design. They differed from predecessors mainly by boilers with increased steam parameters (25atm instead of 17), fuel stowage increased on 30t and the endurance which has increased at the expense of it.

The main calibre of artillery remained former, but gunss were the Dutch production, of advanced model "Wilton-Fijenoord" No.5. Again only No.1 and No.4 mounts were protected by shields. It was originally supposed to arm the ships by 2 twin 40mm Bofors guns, but as a result they received 4 single 40mm pompoms amidships, and 4 12.7mm Browning MGs.

Modernizations

1940-1941, all: - seaplane

1940-1941, Witte de With: + type 128 sonar

Naval service

Van Galen 10.5.1940 was sunk by German bombers at Rotterdam. Van Nes 17.2.1942 was sunk by air group of Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo in Banka Strait. Witte de With 1.3.1942 was hard damaged by Japanese aircraft at Sourabaya and scuttled in the same place 2.3.1942. Banckert 2.3.1942 was scuttled at Sourabaya; she was salvaged by Japanese, commissioned by IJN 20.4.1944 as patrol No.106. In August, 1945 she was returned to the Netherlands, but never commissioned again and sunk as a target in September, 1949.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.