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Smeroe

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Smeroe Merbaboe Rindjani Merapi Slamat Tjerimai	Soerabaja Droogdok, Surabaya: Smeroe, Merbaboe, Rindjani Verenigde Prauwenveren, Batavia: Merapi, Slamat, Tjerimai	1941: Smeroe, Merbaboe, Rindjani	captured incomplete by Japan 3.1942: Merapi, Slamat, Tjerimai	None	1946: Smeroe, Merbaboe, Rindjani

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	60
Displacement full, t	80
Length, m	21.0 pp 22.7 oa
Breadth, m	4.35
Draught, m	1.52
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Caterpillar diesel
Power, h. p.	135
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 7.7/94, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	14

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Project history

Former dispatch boats of Gouvernementmarine, moderated copy of DEFG type. They were converted to minesweepers before completion. According to some information, they were armed with one 12.7mm MG.  Merapi and Slamat were blown up on a slipway in March, 1942. Tjerimai was completed by Japanese as auxiliary submarine chaser Cha101 and sunk 8.4.1945 by American aircraft at coast of Celebes.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Merbaboe, Rindjani and Smeroe in March, 1942 escaped to Australia, they were returned to the Dutch East Indies after war, the further fate is unknown.