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PRINS VAN ORANJE minelayers (1932)


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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



Standard scale images


<i>Prins van Oranje</i> 1933
Prins van Oranje 1933


Graphics


<i>Gouden Leeuw</i> 1932
Gouden Leeuw 1932


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.