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JAN VAN AMSTEL minesweepers (1937, 1940/1946)


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Abraham Crijnssen

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Jan van Amstel A 499 P. Smit, Rotterdam 3.1936 27.8.1936 3.1937 sunk 8.3.1942
Pieter de Bitter B 500 P. Smit, Rotterdam 3.1936 29.10.1936 5.1937 scuttled 6.3.1942
Abraham Crijnssen C, 8.1946- MV1, 1950- M801 712 Gusto, Schiedam 3.1936 22.9.1936 5.1937 to Australia 8.1942 - 5.1943, gate vessel A925 1952
Eland Dubois D 713 Gusto, Schiedam 3.1936 24.10.1936 6.1937 scuttled 8.3.1942
Willem van Ewijck E 506 P. Smit, Rotterdam 1936 22.2.1937 7.1937 sunk 8.9.1939
Pieter Florisz F, 8.1946- MV4, 1950- M804 507 P. Smit, Rotterdam 11.1936 11.5.1937 9.1937 scuttled 14.5.1940, returned by Germany 8.1946, gate vessel A926 1952
Jan van Gelder G, 8.1946- MV3, 1950- M803 714 Gusto, Schiedam 10.1936 27.3.1937 9.1937 to United Kingdom 3.1943 - 5.1945, gate vessel A927 1952
Abraham van der Hulst H 715 Gusto, Schedam 11.1936 31.5.1937 10.1937 scuttled 14.5.1940
Abraham van der Hulst (ex-Willem van Ewijck) MV2, 1950- M802 547 P. Smit, Rotterdam 1940 16.4.1940 8.1940 // 8.1946 captured incomplete by Germany (M552), returned 5.1945, gate vessel A928 1952


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

460

Displacement full, t585
Length, m

55.8 pp 56.8 oa

Breadth, m

7.80

Draught, m

2.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

1600

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

oil 110

Endurance, nm(kts)4700(11)
Armament

1 x 1 - 75/52 SA Nr.2, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 40 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Abraham van der Hulst (ii): 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

45



Standard scale images


<i>Abraham van der Hulst</i> 1946
Abraham van der Hulst 1946
<i>Jan van Amstel</i> 1937
Jan van Amstel 1937
<i>Abraham Crijnssen </i>1950
Abraham Crijnssen 1950


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<i> Abraham Crijnssen</i>
Abraham Crijnssen
<i>Jan van Gelder</i> 1953 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Jan van Gelder 1953 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Largest and most numerous Dutch purpose built minesweepers. Design was developed on the basis of A class minesweeper with significantly increased dimensions and intended for service both in mother country waters, and in colonies. The successful ships as which most significant lack bad conditions of habitability were considered. With the Second World War beginning the order for 4 ships was given out, but only one ship was laid down; in the beginning of 1940 2 more ships were ordered, but their building did not begin.

Modernizations

1942 - 1943, Abraham Crijnssen, Jan van Gelder: - 1 x 1 - 75/52, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

late 1940s, all survived: were armed with 1 x 1 - 75/55 SA Nr.2, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IV, 40 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

Willem van Ewijck was lost 8.9.1939, having mined on Dutch defensive minefield. Also Jan van Gelder was simultaneously mined, but she was salvaged and repaired. Jan van Gelder 26.3.1943 was transferred to RN and returned in 1945. Since 1950 she was used as netlayer, stricken in 1961.

Pieter Florisz and Abraham van der Hulst were scuttled at Enkhuizen 14.5.1940; they were salvaged by Germans and commissioned by Kriegsmarine as M551 and M553. Incomplete Willem van Ewijck (ii) was captured by Germans on a slipway and completed as M552. M553 was lost 20.8.1944; others two have been returned to the Netherlands in 1945, M551 has received a former name Pieter Florisz, and M552 was renamed Willem van Ewijck. Pieter de Bitter 6.3.1942 was scuttled at Surabaya. Eland Dubois 8.3.1942 was scuttled at Madura. Jan van Amstel 6.3.1942 was damaged by Japanese aircraft at Surabaya and 8.3.1942 sunk by Japanese destroyers at Madura. Abraham Crijnssen since 26.8.1942 till 5.5.1943 was transferred to RAN; in 1996 she was transferred to a naval museum in Den Helder.



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