HNLMS Pieter de Bitter

	Pieter de Bitter in late 1930s
History
Netherlands
Name	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 & 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)
Installed power	2 × Yarrow boilers; 1,600 ihp (1,193 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 × triple expansion engines
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	45
Armament	1 × single 3 in (76 mm) gun; 2 × twin .50-calibre machine guns;