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BLOEDHOND monitors (1870)


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Bloedhond

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bloedhond     Rijkswerf Amsterdam 1867 1869 1870 sold 1907
Cerberus     Rijkswerf Amsterdam 1867 1869 1870 stricken 1905


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Bloedhond: 1656

Cerberus: 1559

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

Bloedhond: 55.7

Cerberus: 56.5

Breadth, m

Bloedhond: 14.2

Cerberus: 13.4

Draught, m

Bloedhond: 3.15 max

Cerberus: 3.00 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 HRCR, 4 rectangular boilers

Power, h. p.

Bloedhond: 680

Cerberus: 534

Max speed, kts

Bloedhond: 7.7

Cerberus: 7

Fuel, t

Bloedhond: coal 128

Cerberus: coal 98

Endurance, nm(kts)700(7)
Armour, mm

iron; side: 140, deck: 25, turret: 285 - 203, CT: 140

Armament

1 x 2 - 229/14 Armstrong 12.5-ton MLR

Complement

117



Standard scale images


<i>Cerberus </i>1870
Cerberus 1870


Graphics


<i>Bloedhond</i>
Bloedhond


Project history

Low freeboard monitors without ram bows, and with narrow fore and aft superstructures.

Ship protection

Armoured 140mm belt protected full ship length. Turret had 285-203mm sides.

Modernizations

1882, Cerberus; 1883, Bloedhond: - 1 x 2 - 229/14; + 1 x 1 - 283/20 Krupp No.1, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service

No significant events.