HNLMS Poolster (1939)
HNLMS Poolster (1939) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Poolster |
| Namesake | Poolster |
| Builder | Droogdok Maatschappij, Tandjong Priok |
| Laid down | 1938 |
| Commissioned | 1939 |
| In service | 1939 |
| Out of service | 2 March 1942 |
| Renamed | Horei Maru (Imperial Japanese Navy serving as salvage ship) |
| Fate | Scuttled 2 March 1942 by RNN, raised by IJN on 1 September 1943 and sunk American aircraft 15 January 1945. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Auxiliary, submarine tender, seaplane tender, salvage ship |
| Displacement | 1,565 t (1,540 long tons) standard |
| Length | 74.72 m (245 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 12 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 3 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | 1,250 hp (930 kW) |
| Propulsion | 4-stroke Smit-MAN Diesel engine powering a single screw |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 90 |
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HNLMS Poolster was a Royal Netherlands Navy auxiliary ship. Originally constructed for the Government Navy as a replacement for HNLMS Hoofdinspecteur Zeeman, she would instead be transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy while still under construction.
Once completed in 1939, she was commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy as a seaplane tender and salvage ship. During the Second World War she would also serve as a submarine tender if the opportunity arose.