HNLMS Van Galen (1928)

	HNLMS Van Galen
History
Netherlands
Name	Van Galen
Namesake	Johan van Galen
Builder	Fijenoord
Laid down	28 May 1927
Launched	28 June 1928
Commissioned	22 October 1929
Fate	Sunk, 10 May 1940
General characteristics
Class & type	Admiralen-class destroyer
Displacement	1,316 long tons (1,337 t) (standard)
Length	98.15 m (322 ft 0 in)
Beam	9.53 m (31 ft 3 in)
Draft	2.97 m (9 ft 9 in)
Installed power	3 × Yarrow type boilers; 31,000 shp (23,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 × shafts, 2 × geared turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	143
Armament	4 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns; 1 × single 75 mm (3 in) AA gun; 4 × single 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns; 4 × single 12.7 mm (0.50 in) guns; 2 × triple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes;
Aircraft carried	1 × Fokker C.VII-W floatplane
Aviation facilities	crane

HNLMS Van Galen (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Van Galen) was a Admiralen-class destroyer built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 1920s. Completed in 1928, the ship played a minor role in the Second World War. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 she was soon sunk by German aircraft. Her wreck was salvaged in 1941 and subsequently scrapped.