HNLMS Piet Hein (1927)
HNLMS Piet Hein at full speed off the Dutch East Indies in 1937 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Piet Hein |
| Namesake | Piet Pieterszoon Hein |
| Laid down | 26 August 1925 |
| Launched | 2 April 1927 |
| Commissioned | 25 January 1929 |
| Fate | Sunk, 19 February 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Admiralen-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,310 long tons (1,331 t) standard |
| Length | |
| Beam | 9.45 m (31.0 ft) |
| Draft | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
| Installed power | 31,000 hp (23 MW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range | 3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph): 210 |
| Complement | 129 |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Fokker C.VII-W floatplane |
| Aviation facilities | 1 × Davit |
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HNLMS Piet Hein was an Admiralen-class destroyer operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy between 1928 and 1942. She was designed to also serve as a minelayer, and spend most of her career in the Dutch East Indies. During the Dutch East Indies campaign of World War II, the destroyer joined an allied fleet in several attempts to repulse Japanese invasions. In one such attempt in the Badung Strait, Piet Hein became isolated, crippled, torpedoed, and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Asashio.