Pictures

 

Cruisers

Dutch ships in action, February 4 1942. From left to right, a destroyer, Tromp and De Ruyter (NIOD)

Nice painting of de Ruyter (I) by Adam Werka

De Ruyter (I) AA-battery of 10 Bofors 40 mm Bofors (NIOD)

Jacob van Heemskerck aerial starboard view. The tripod mast was removed in 1943

Jacob van Heemskerck in Fremantle after the war  (Collection Saxon Fogarty, contributed by Kevin Lock)

Java in Tandjong Priok. Note the long, thin masts which were replaced in 1935 (Collection R. van Hoften)

Java in port after 1937. Note shortened masts and fire control system (IMH)

Java under heavy air attack, February 15 1942 (IMH)

Part of the main battery of Java firing during target practice in 1939 (IMH)

Sumatra moored at quay in the 1930s, date and place unknown (Collection R. van Hoften)

Sumatra at sea in English waters, May 1940

Sumatra sunk as blockship at Normandy (IMH)

Tromp during trials

Tromp refueling during invasion of Balikpapan, July 1945  (Collection G. Horneman)

Zeven Provinciën seen from the stern

Aerial photo of Zeven Provinciën

Destroyers

Banckert at anchor in the Netherlands East Indies (IMH)

Campbeltown at sea, still as USS Buchanan (DD-131)

The wreck of the Evertsen on a reef in Sunda Strait (IMH)

Piet Hein in drydock (IMH)

Piet Hein in 1930 (Collection M. van der Hoeden)

Sweers aerial port view, 1941

Sweers during trials. Note the barrage balloons in the background (Collection J. Klootwijk)

Sweers loading torpedoes after battle at Bon Cape

Tjerk Hiddes (II) during the war (IMH)

The battered Van Galen (I) after May 1940 (IMH)

Van Galen (II) during the war (IMH)

Van Galen (II) entering Fremantle, probably postwar (Collection Saxon Fogarty, contributed by Kevin Lock )

Van Ghent burning on a reef (IMH)

Van Nes at sea (IMH)

Witte de With at Padang (Collection R. van Hoften)

Minelayers

Bangkalan still as Hydrograaf, 1936

Douwe Aukes off Flushing, 1937

Gouden Leeuw entering port before the war (IMH)

Hydra port rear view (IMH)

Jan van Brakel at sea in 1936 on the Westerschelde

Krakatau capsized near Soerabaja, October 11, 1932 (IMH)

Krakatau (right) at anchor in Soerabaja, February 24 1942. Burning in the background is the freighter Kota Radja

Nautilus in 1930 (IMH)

Prins van Oranje in the Netherlands, 1932 (IMH)

Pro Patria in 1926

Van Meerlant during neutrality, 1939 or 1940 (Collection webmaster)

Willem van der Zaan lying at the quay before the war (Collection webmaster)

Minesweepers

Van Amstel-class minesweepers in column

Abraham Crijnssen before the war (IMH)

Minesweeper "B" starboard view (IMH)

Duiveland in the Netherlands East Indies (IMH)

Jan van Gelder during the war with pennant J.60 (IMH)

M 1 and M 4 in port pre-war

Pieter Florisz in service with the Kriegsmarine (Collection Erich Gröner)

Rozenburg at anchor (IMH)

Smeroe in tropical waters (IMH)

Willem van Ewijck (I) at sea (Collection O. van Hoften)

Motortorpedoboats

MTB 204 at sea

TM 5 firing a torpedo during practice. (NHC)

TM-30 with impressive paintings (IMH)

TM-51 after her escape to the UK (IMH)

TM-58 in German service

Torpedoboats

Christiaan Cornelis at sea (IMH)

The French torpedoboat Bouclier, temporarily detached to the RNN

Nice overall view of the old torpedoboat G.13 (IMH)

Torpedoboat G.16 at sea (IMH)

Torpedoboat Z.6 in 1917

Sloops and gunboats

Brinio before the war (IMH)

Flores with her main battery trained

Friso sinking after a bombattack. Van der Hulst is closing to assist

Friso sinking # 2

Gruno in port during WW II

Hefring pre-war (IMH)

Johan Maurits van Nassau at Colón, Panama on November 12, 1934 (Collection National Arhives in Washington, U.S.A.)

Johan Maurits van Nassau at Ponta Delgada, Azores on May 21, 1937 (Collection Carlos Manuel Estrela)

Johan Maurits van Nassau, starboard side (Collection webmaster)

Nice shot of Soemba at sea (IMH)

Van Kinsbergen leaving Curaçao, April 18 1942 (IMH)

Van Kinsbergen after the war with a more cruiser-like look    (collection Saxon Fogarty, contributed by Kevin Lock)

Anti-submarine vessels

Corvette Friso (II) port view (IMH)

Higgins-boat H-8 in the Dutch West Indies

Johan Maurits (II) in 1948 (Collection webmaster)

Queen Wilhelmina post war (Collection O. van HOften)

Queen Wilhelmina with camouflage paint

Toern (ex-Norwegian whaler) at sea (IMH)

Coastal Defense Ships

The former Gelderland as the Flakschiff Niobe

Hertog Hendrik with floatplanes on board (Marinemuseum Den Helder)

Hertog Hendrik equipped as floating AA-battery Ariadne in the Kriegsmarine (IMH)

Jacob van Heemskerck in her original condition at Amsterdam (Collection J. Klootwijk)

Zeven Provinciën en route to the Netherlands East Indies, December 1921 (Collection webmaster)

Zeven Provinciën lying at anchor, before conversion to a training ship

Soerabaia (ex-Zeven Provincën) during target practice

Landing party of Soerabaia (ex-Zeven Provincën) going ashore (Collection J. Klootwijk)

Soerabaia (ex-Zeven Provincën) lying in port (Collection J. Klootwijk)

Soerabaja (ex-Zeven Provinciën) sunk in Soerabaja, October 1946

Merchant Aircraft carriers

Gadila at anchor in port # 1   (Thanks to NAVPIC-Holland)

Gadila at anchor in port # 2   (Thanks to NAVPIC-Holland)

Gadila at anchor in port # 3   (Thanks to NAVPIC-Holland)

Swordfish landing aboard Gadila

Macoma at sea, aerial view (IMH)

Auxiliary vessels

Barentsz at sea

Colombia aerial view   (courtesy Roel Zwama)

Janssens at sea   (courtesy Roel Zwama)

Kärnten (ex-Tankboot I) in service of the Sovjet Navy (U.S. Navy Photograph)

Hospitalship Op ten Noort in Japanese service as Hikawa Maru No. 2 (U.S. Navy Photograph)

Serdang with decks full of guests (IMH)

Gouvernementsmarine

Castor at anchor in Gorontalo Bay, Celebes (Sulawesi), ca 1921.

Seaplanemothership Poolster at anchor near Meeuwen-island, Sunda Strait, March 1 1940

Zuiderkruis with subs alongside

Reiger at anchor

Rigel at sea, date and place unknown (Collection J. Klootwijk)

Valk in the NEI
Abbreviations
IMH Instituut voor Maritieme Historie, The Hague
NHC Naval Historical Centre, U.S.A.
NIOD Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie

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