HNLMS Jan van Gelder

Jan van Gelder in Royal Navy service
History
Netherlands
NameJan van Gelder
BuilderGusto, Schiedam
Laid down10 October 1936
Launched27 March 1937
Commissioned13 September 1937
Recommissioned1946
Decommissioned1961
Stricken1961
FateScrapped, 1979
United Kingdom
NameJan van Gelder (J60)
Acquired26 March 1943
FateReturned to the Netherlands, 1946
General characteristics
Class & typeJan van Amstel-class minesweeper
Displacement460 long tons (467 t)
Length56.8 m (186 ft 4 in)
Beam7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts, 2 × triple expansion engines
Speed15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement45
Armament

HNLMS Jan van Gelder was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.

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