NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Regulus			Soerabaja Droogdok Mij, Surabaya	1941	21.5.1943	6.1944 // ---	captured incomplete by Japan 3.1942 (南海 [Nankai])
Ram			Tandjong Priok Droogdok	1941	10.12.1941	---	scuttled incomplete 2.3.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2200
Displacement full, t	2400
Length, m	85.8 pp 88.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.7
Draught, m	4.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Enterprise / Bush Sulzer diesels
Power, h. p.	4800
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/52 SA Nr.2, 2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Nr.4, 80 mines, 2 DCR (25)
Complement	120

Standard scale images

Project history

Built as patrols for Gouvernementmarine. On construction they were increased version of Rigel and should can carry 80 mines (on other data, up to 160). Besides, according to some information, they were planned to usage as seaplane tenders.

Ram after launch has been towed off to Tjilitjap where she was scuttled incomplete 2.3.1942. She was raised by Japanese in May, 1943 and towed on completion to Surabaya. Regulus was captured by Japanese on a slipway in Surabaya. Both were renamed Nanshin and Nankai respectively and completed by Japanese as gunboats. Nankai was sunk by USN submarine Blenny 16.7.1945. Nanshin was never completed and after war handed over on demolition.