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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Koningin Regentes			Rijkswerf Amsterdam	3.12.1898	24.4.1900	9.8.1901	stricken 1920
De Ruyter			Fijenoord, Schiedam	12.5.1900	28.9.1901	29.10.1902	stricken 1923
Hertog Hendrik, 8.1939- Vliereede			Rijkswerf Amsterdam	13.10.1900	7.6.1902	5.1.1904	captured by Germany 14.5.1940 (Ariadne)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Koningin Regentes, De Ruyter: 5002 Hertog Hendrik: 5084
Displacement full, t
Length, m	95.1 pp 96.6 oa
Breadth, m	15.2
Draught, m	5.82 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	6500
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	coal 722 - 736
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 150 - 100, bulkheads: 150, deck: 50, turrets: 100, barbettes: 250 - 100, CT: 250
Armament	2 x 1 - 238/37 Krupp No.1, 4 x 1 - 149/37 Krupp No.4, 8 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp No.3, 4 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 3 - 450 TT (1 aft, 2 beam)
Complement	340

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Project history

Successful compact coast defence ships with a full-length armoured waterline belt. Unlike similar Scandinavian ships they had large dimensions that allowed to ensure the better seaworthiness and high endurance.

In 1926 Hertog Hendrik was converted to TS, the aft turret was removed and ship received 2 seaplanes, handled by lattice crane on a mainmast.

Ship protection

Armoured belt protected full ship length, 150mm-thick part between main turrets was closed by 150mm bulkheads. Main 50mm deck was connected with upper edge of the belt.

Modernizations

1926, Hertog Hendrick: - 1 x 1 - 238/37, 4 x 1 - 75/37, 4 x 1 - 37/20; + 2 seaplanes (WA or Fairey IIID)

1940, Vliereede: + 2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors No.4, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90

Naval service

Hertog Hendrik was scheduled to scrap in the early 1940, but in December, 1939, in connection with the Second World War beginning, for some weeks she was commissioned as floating battery named Vliereede. The exact armament structure that moment is unknown. 14.5.1940 she was captured by German troops and subsequently converted to non-self-propelled AA floating battery Ariadne. Ship was returned in 1945, converted by Wilton-Feijenoord to barrack ship and commissioned 21.10.1947 under old name Hertog Hendrik. She was disbanded 27.9.1968 and stricken 28.8.1969.



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