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Rigel 1931 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Rigel		37	Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam	3.1930	7.3.1931	11.1931	scuttled 2.3.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1378
Displacement full, t	1631
Length, m	69.6 pp 74.0 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	3.06
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1400
Max speed, kts	12.7
Fuel, t	coal 197
Endurance, nm(kts)	2200(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp Nr.1, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 150 mines
Complement	67

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Project history

Patrol ship and yacht of the governor-general of the East Indies. The design was developed on the basis of minelayer Krakatau. Rigel was reclassified to minelayer 15.10.1939.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Rigel was scuttled at Batavia 2.3.1942. She was lifted by Japanese in March, 1944 and put into repair, in 1945 she was returned to the Netherlands, but never commissioned again. In 1951, still being on repair at Surabaya, ship was transferred to Indonesia and renamed Dewakambar; in Naval Forces of Indonesia it was planed to convert her to survey vessel, however the further fate of the ship is unknown (probably, she was never repaired).

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