HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst (1937)
HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst in 1939
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History | |
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Netherlands | |
Name | HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst |
Namesake | Abraham van der Hulst |
Builder | Gusto, Schiedam |
Laid down | 13 November 1936[1] |
Launched | 31 May 1937[1][2] |
Commissioned | 11 October 1937[1] |
Fate | Scuttled, 14 May 1940[2] |
Germany | |
Name | M 552 |
Commissioned | 1940 |
Decommissioned | April 1944 |
Fate | Destroyed during an air raid, 30 August 1944 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 46 |
Armament |
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HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1930s. The German invasion of the Netherlands resulted in the ship being scuttled at Enkhuizen on 14 May 1940, but was raised by the Germans and entered service as the minesweeper M 552 with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.[3] The vessel was sunk by a mine off East Prussia on 21 April 1944. M 552 was raised on 20 July 1944 and towed to Stettin. There, the ship was bombed and burned out 20 August 1944. The wreck was captured by the Soviets. One source says she was returned to the Netherlands post war.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Jan van Amstel-class". Netherlandsnavy.net. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- ^ a b Lenton 1975, p. 355.
- ^ a b Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 394.
- ^ "Jan van Amstel-class". netherlandsnavy.nl. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
Bibliography[]
- Gardiner, Robert and Roger Chesneau. Conway's All The World's Fighting Warships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Lenton, H.T. German Warships of the Second World War. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1975. ISBN 0-356-04661-3.
External links[]
Media related to H Hr.Ms. Abraham van der Hulst (ship, 1937) at Wikimedia Commons
- "German Minesweepers Netherlandish". Warshipsww2.Eu. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
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- Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers
- Ships built in the Netherlands
- 1937 ships
- World War II minesweepers of the Netherlands
- Mine warfare vessels of the Kriegsmarine
- Naval ships of the Netherlands captured by Germany during World War II
- World War II shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea
- Maritime incidents in May 1940
- Maritime incidents in April 1944
- Maritime incidents in August 1944
- Ships sunk by mines
- Ships built by Gusto Shipyard
- European naval ship stubs
- Dutch history stubs