HNLMS Piet Hein (1927)

For other ships with the same name, see HNLMS Piet Hein.

History
Piet Hein
Netherlands
Name:	Piet Hein
Namesake:	Piet Hein
Laid down:	26 August 1925
Launched:	2 April 1927
Commissioned:	25 January 1929
Fate:	Sunk in the Battle of Badung Strait, 19 February 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	Admiralen-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,316 long tons (1,337 t) standard 1,640 long tons (1,666 t) full load
Length:	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam:	9.53 m (31 ft 3 in)
Draft:	2.97 m (9 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines 3 × Yarrow type boilers 31,000 hp (23 MW) 2 shafts
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)
Complement:	149
Armament:	4 × 4.7 in (120 mm) guns (4×1) 2 × 3 in (76 mm) AA guns (2×1) 4 × .50 calibre machine guns 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) 24 × mines
Aircraft carried:	1 Fokker floatplane, but no catapult

HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was an Admiralen-class destroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Piet Hein.

Service history

Video of HNLMS Piet Hein at Rotterdam in 1928. Dutch newsreel.

The ship was laid down on 26 August 1925 at the shipyard of Burgerhout's Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek in Rotterdam and launched on 2 April 1927. The ship was commissioned on 25 January 1929.^[1]

On 23 August 1936 Sumatra, her sister Java and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein were present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13 November both Java-class cruisers and the destroyers Evertsen, Witte de With and Piet Hein made a fleet visit to Singapore. Before the visit they had practised in the South China Sea.^[2]

On 13 October 1938 she collided with the cruiser Java in the Sunda Strait. Java had to be repaired at Surabaya.^[3]

World War II

She served mostly in the Netherlands East Indies, and when war broke out in 1941 she was at Surabaya. She took part in Battle of Badung Strait in the night of 18–19 February 1942, where she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Asashio, with a loss of 64 men, including its captain J.M.L.I. Chömpff.

References

↑ Visser, Jan. "Admiralen-class destroyers". Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of World War II. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
↑ "Maritieme kalender 1936". Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
↑ "Maritieme kalender 1938". Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2014.

L., Klemen (1999–2000). "Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942".

Admiralen-class destroyers

First group	Van Ghent / De Ruyter Evertsen Piet Hein Kortenaer

Second group	Van Galen Witte de With Banckert Van Nes

Preceded by: Wolf class Followed by: Gerard Callenburgh class

List of destroyers of the Royal Netherlands Navy

Dutch naval ship classes of World War II

Battlecruisers

Design 1047^X

Cruisers

Destroyers

Frigates

Johan Maurits van Nassau^B^S

Gunboats and sloops

Submarines

O-series	O 9 O 12 O 16^S O 19 O 21

K-series	K V K VIII K XI K XIV

Other	Dolfijn^B^S Zeehond^B^S Zwaardvisch^B

Mine warfare vessel

Minelayers	Hydra Douwe Aukes Prins van Oranje Willem van der Zaan^S

Minesweepers	M A Jan van Amstel ABC

B: ex-British
C: Completed after the war
S: Single ship of class
X: Cancelled

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in February 1942

Shipwrecks	2 Feb: U-581, W. L. Steed 3 Feb: Talthybius 5 Feb: HMS Arbutus, Empress of Asia 6 Feb: U-82 9 Feb: USS Lafayette, Natsushio 11 Feb: USS Shark, HMCS Spikenard 12 Feb: HMS Maori 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van Ghent 17 Feb: USS Detector, Empire Comet, USS Paramount, HNLMS Van Nes 18 Feb: HNLMS K VII, USS Pollux, HNLMS Soerabaja, Surcouf, USS Truxtun 19 Feb: British Consul, British Motorist, Don Isidro, Kelat, Mauna Loa, HMAS Mavie, USAT Meigs, Neptuna, USS Peary, HNLMS Piet Hein, Portmar, Zealandia 21 Feb: Kurtuluş 22 Feb: Hanne, Sama 23 Feb: HMS P38 24 Feb: Empire Celt, Struma (disaster) 27 Feb: HNLMS De Ruyter, HMS Electra, USS Langley, HMS Jupiter, HNLMS Java, HNLMS Kortenaer, R.P. Resor 28 Feb: USS Jacob Jones Unknown date: I-23

Other incidents	4 Feb: USS Marblehead 18 Feb: USS Wilkes

1941 1942 1943 January 1942 March 1942

Coordinates: 8°40′S 115°20′E / 8.667°S 115.333°E / -8.667; 115.333

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