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Ceram

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Alor	HMV2		Tandjong Priok Droogdok		1938	1938	scuttled 2.3.1942
Aroe	HMV1		Tandjong Priok Droogdok		1938	1938	scuttled 2.3.1942
Bantam	HMV4		Tandjong Priok Droogdok		1938	1938	scuttled 2.3.1942
Bogor	HMV3		Tandjong Priok Droogdok		1938	1938	scuttled 2.3.1942
Ceram	HMV5		Tandjong Priok Droogdok		1938	1938	scuttled 2.3.1942
Cheribon	HMV6		Tandjong Priok Droogdok		1938	1938	scuttled 2.3.1942

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	131
Displacement full, t	145
Length, m	29.3 pp 31.6 oa
Breadth, m	5.45
Draught, m	1.84
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Werkspoor diesel
Power, h. p.	300
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94
Complement	18

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Project history

Despatch vessels of Gouvernementmarine intending for transportation of passengers and small cargoes between islands, in 1940 they were converted to minesweepers.

Modernizations

1940, all: + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

All were destroyed by crews at Tandjung Priok on the night of 2.3.1942. Bantam was salvaged by Japanese and commissioned 10.3.1943 as auxiliary submarine chaser Cha117, 23.7.1945 she was sunk by American submarine Hardhead S off Bali.