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Van Meerlant

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Van Meerlant	M36		Gusto, Schiedam	10.1919	23.11.1920	7.1922	to United Kingdom 4.1941, sunk 4.6.1941
Douwe Aukes	T309, 6.1946- ML1		Gusto, Schiedam	10.1919	23.1.1922	11.1922	to United Kingdom 3.1941 - 5.1945, minesweeper tender 1948

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	687
Displacement full, t	748
Length, m	54.8 pp
Breadth, m	8.70
Draught, m	3.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	1000
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 115
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 75/52 SA Nr.2, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 108 mines
Complement	60

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Project history

Development of Hydra class with increased dimensions and mine capacity. They can carry on the covered mine deck 87 mines of 1921 type or 108 mines of 1918 type.

Modernizations

1941, Douwe Aukes: - 2 x 1 - 12.7/90; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1942, Douwe Aukes: - 2 x 1 - 75/52; + 2 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

Douwe Aukes and Van Meerlant were transferred to Royal Navy 29.4.1941 and 14.3.1941 respectively. Van Meerlant was lost 4.6.1941 on a mine in a mouth of Thames. Douwe Aukes was returned to the Netherlands in 1945, after war converted to minesweeper tender, stricken 1.2.1962 and sold on demolition 6.7.1962.