HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was an Admiralen-classdestroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Piet Pieterszoon Hein.
Dutch warship that served in World War II
For other ships with the same name, see HNLMS Piet Hein.
HNLMS Piet Hein
History
Netherlands
Name
Piet Hein
Namesake
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Laid down
26 August 1925
Launched
2 April 1927
Commissioned
25 January 1929
Fate
Sunk in the Battle of Badung Strait, 19 February 1942
In the mid-1920s, the Netherlands placed orders for four new destroyers to be deployed to the East Indies. They were built in Dutch shipyards to a design by the British Yarrow Shipbuilders, which was based on the destroyer HMSAmbuscade, which Yarrow had designed and built for the British Royal Navy.[2]
The ship's main gun armament was four 120 millimetres (4.7in) guns built by the Swedish company Bofors, mounted two forward and two aft, with two 75mm (3.0in) anti-aircraft guns mounted amidships. Four 12.7mm machine guns provided close-in anti-aircraft defence. The ship's torpedo armament comprised six 533mm (21.0in) torpedo tubes in two triple mounts, while 24 mines could also be carried. To aid search operations, the ship carried a Fokker C.VII-Wfloatplane on a platform over the aft torpedo tubes, which was lowered to the sea by a crane for flight operations.[1][3]
Service history
Video of HNLMS Piet Hein at Rotterdam in 1928. Dutch newsreel.
The ship was laid down on 26 August 1925, at the shipyard of Burgerhout's Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek in Rotterdam, and launched on 2 April 1927. The ship was commissioned on 25 January 1929.[4]
On 23 August 1936, Piet Hein, the cruiser Java and her sister Sumatra, and the destroyers Van Galen and Witte de With, were present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13 November, both Java-classcruisers and the destroyers Evertsen, Witte de With, and Piet Hein made a fleet visit to Singapore. Before the visit they had practised in the South China Sea.[5]
On 13 October 1938, she collided with Java in the Sunda Strait. Java had to be repaired at Surabaya.[6]
World War II
She served mostly in the Netherlands East Indies, and when war broke out in 1941, she was at Surabaya. She took part in Battle of Badung Strait in the night of 18–19 February 1942, where she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese destroyerAsashio, with a loss of 64 men, including its captain J.M.L.I. Chömpff.
References
Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 389.
Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 390.
Whitley 2000, pp. 210–211.
Visser, Jan. "Admiralen-class destroyers". Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of World War II. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
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