HNLMS Pieter de Bitter (1936)
![]() Pieter de Bitter in late 1930s
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Name | HNLMS Pieter de Bitter |
Namesake | Pieter de Bitter |
Builder | P. Smit, Rotterdam |
Laid down | 21 March 1936 |
Launched | 29 October 1936 |
Commissioned | 26 May 1937 |
Fate | Scuttled, 6 March 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 460 long tons (467 t) |
Length | 56.8 m (186 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 45 |
Armament |
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HNLMS Pieter de Bitter was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.
Service history[]
Pieter de Bitter was scuttled at Surabaya on 6 March 1942.
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- Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers
- Ships built in the Netherlands
- 1936 ships
- World War II minesweepers of the Netherlands
- World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
- Maritime incidents in March 1942
- European naval ship stubs
- Dutch history stubs