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KONINKLIJKE MARINE (Royal Dutch Navy). Free use copyright applies.
| Tonnage | 3450 tons standard |
| Dimensions | 433' by 40'9" by 14'2" 131.97m by 12.43m by 4.64m |
| Maximum speed | 32.5 knots |
| Complement | 309 |
| Aircraft |
1 seaplane No catapult |
| Armament | 3x2 5.9"/50 guns 2x2 40mm Bofors AA guns 4x1 0.50 machine guns 3x2 21" torpedo tubes Two depth charge throwers |
| Protection | 450 tons: 0.63" (16mm) belt 0.79"-1.18" (20mm-30mm) torpedo bulkhead 0.59" to 1" (15mm to 25mm) deck 0.59" to 1" (15mm to 25mm) gun shields |
| Machinery |
2-shaft Parsons geared turbine
(56,000 shp) 4 Yarrow boilers |
| Bunkerage | 860 tons fuel oil |
| Range | 6000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 knots |
| Modifications |
1942: 2 3" AA guns, 6x1 20mm Oerlikon AA guns
added. Radar installed. One depth
charge thrower and the seaplane removed. 1943-11: 2 additional 3" guns added. The quad 0.50 machine gun mount was replaced with four singles. |
The Tromps were very small and lightly armored cruisers, in some respect resembling armored super destroyers. Authorized in 1931, they were originally intended to serve as destroyer flotilla leaders, but this may have been a political ploy to slip a light cruiser design for Far Eastern waters into the Navy budget.
The second ship of this class, Jacob van Heemskerck, was still incomplete when war broke out in Europe. She was completed in Britain as an antiaircraft cruiser and is described separately.
Tromp
herself was with Task
Force 2 in Sunda Strait when war broke out. She spent the entire
war in the Pacific Theater.
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