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| Tonnage | 1407 tons standard displacement |
| Dimensions | 246'9' by 36'9" by 10'10" 75.2m by 11.2m by 3.3m |
| Maximum speed | 15.5 knots |
| Complement | 92 |
| Aircraft |
1 seaplane |
| Armament | 2 4.7"/50 guns 2x2 40mm Bofors AA guns 4x1 0.50 machine guns Depth charges 90 mines |
| Machinery |
2-shaft triple expansion (2200
hp) 2 Yarrow 3-drum boilers |
| Bunkerage | 740 tons fuel oil |
| Range | 4500 nautical miles (8300 km) at 20 knots |
| Sensors |
Sonar |
| Modifications |
Radar, which was upgraded periodically. The 40mm Bofors were removed by the British
for study and replaced with 1x4 40mm pom-poms. |
The Willem van der Zaan was completed in 1939 and was in most
respects a quite modern ship, though her machinery appeared somewhat
obsolescent. In addition to her crew, she could carry 40 midshipmen for
training cruises. She
escaped from Holland to England in 1940 and gave the
British
their first demonstration of the 40mm
Bofors. She carried a seaplane but had no catapult. At
the outbreak of war, she was at Lingga Roads off Singapore. Though already in poor
repair when war broke out, with leaking boiler tubes, she survived the
war.
References
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