HNLMS Prins van Oranje
Prins van Oranje | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Prins van Oranje |
| Builder | N.V. Internationale Scheepsbouw Mij. 'De Maas' |
| Laid down | 20 September 1930 |
| Launched | 10 July 1931 |
| Commissioned | 2 February 1932 |
| Nickname(s) | Willem de Zwijger |
| Fate | Sunk by gunfire, 12 January 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Prins van Oranje-class minelayer |
| Displacement | 1,291 long tons (1,312 t) (full load) |
| Length | 66 m (216 ft 6 in) (pp) |
| Beam | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 vertical triple expansion engines |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 121 |
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The Prins van Oranje was the lead ship of her class of two minelayers built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 1930s and were intended to serve in the Dutch East Indies. Completed in 1932, the ship was stationed there when the Pacific War began in December 1941. Prins van Oranje was sunk by a Japanese destroyer and a patrol boat in January 1942.