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Gouden Leeuw 1932

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Prins van Oranje			De Maas, Slikkerveer	9.1930	10.7.1931	2.1932	sunk 11.1.1942
Gouden Leeuw			De Maas, Slikkerveer	9.1930	9.9.1931	2.1932	scuttled 7.3.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1291
Displacement full, t	~1600
Length, m	65.8 pp 70.0 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	3.28
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1750
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/52 SA Nr.2, 2 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk II, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 150 mines
Complement	121

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Project history

Minelayers for service in the East Indies, designed on the basis of a yacht-minelayer Rigel, but were built in the Netherlands.

Modernizations

1942, Gouden Leeuw: + 2 DCR, sonar

Naval service

Prins van Oranje on the night of 11.1.1942 was sunk by Japanese destroyer Yamakaze at Tarakan. Gouden Leeuw 7.3.1942 was scuttled at Surabaya.