Nias class
The Nias-class was a class of four colonial “schroefstoomschepen 4e klasse” (gunboats) built by Huygens en van Gelder in Amsterdam and Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde in Flushing for the Royal Netherlands Navy.
Hull | Name | Class | Type | Commisioned | Decommisioned | Status |
-- | HNLMS Nias | Nias | Gunboat | 1896 | -- | 1907 to government marine |
-- | HNLMS Mataran | Nias | Gunboat | 1897 | -- | Trainingship for local personnel |
-- | HNLMS Edi | Nias | Gunboat | 1897 | -- | 1-11-1910 to government marine |
-- | HNLMS Serdang | Nias | Gunboat | 1897 | -- | Scutteled off, Surabaya 6-3-1942 |
HNLMS Mataran
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HNLMS Edi
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Koetei class
The Koetei-class was a class of three colonial “schroefstoomschepen 4e klasse” (gunboats) built by the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij in Amsterdam and Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord in Rotterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy.
Hull | Name | Class | Type | Commisioned | Decommisioned | Status |
-- | HNLMS Koetei | Koetei | Gunboat | 1898 | 1931 | 1931 to government marine |
-- | HNLMS Siboga | Koetei | Gunboat | 1898 | 1933 | Sold for scrape in 1933 |
-- | HNLMS Assahan | Koetei | Gunboat | 1900 | 1924 | Sold for scrape in 1931 |
Ever class
The Ever class was a class of 14 flat-iron gunboats of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
Hull | Name | Class | Type | Commisioned | Decommisioned | Status |
-- | HNLMS Ever | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 18-07-1873 | 1884 | Accommodation ship till 1914 |
-- | HNLMS Hydra | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 30-09-1873 | Unknown | stricken 1906 |
-- | HNLMS Dog (Daak) | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 16-05-1876 | Unknown | subsidiary service 1894 |
-- | HNLMS Havik | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1874 | Unknown | minelayer till 1914, sold in 1936 |
-- | HNLMS Gier | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 16-05-1876 | 1884 | sold in 1913 |
-- | HNLMS Raaf | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1875 | Unknown | subsidiary service 1894 |
-- | HNLMS Geep | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1875 | Unknown | auxiliary till 1908 |
-- | HNLMS Brak | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 16-05-1876 | Unknown | hulk 1902 |
-- | HNLMS Lynx | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1874 Unknown
| Unknown | sold in 1925 |
-- | HNLMS Vos | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1875 | Unknown | stricken 1893 |
-- | HNLMS Fret | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1876 | Unknown | accommodation ship till 1898 |
-- | HNLMS Das | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1876 | Unknown | minelayer till 1914, sold in 1925 |
-- | HNLMS Sperwer | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1875 | 1896 | auxiliary till 1927 |
-- | HNLMS Bever | Ever | Flat iron gunboat | 1876 | Unknown | accommodation ship till 1896 |
Wodan (Thor) class
The Wodan class was a class of 16 flat-iron gunboats of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
Hull | Name | Class | Type | Commisioned | Decommisioned | Status |
-- | HNLMS Wodan | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown Unknown
| Unknown | discarded 1924 |
-- | HNLMS Thor | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | minelayer 1918, captured by Germany 14-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Fryer | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | scuttled 14-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Njord | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | stricken 1925 |
-- | HNLMS Tyr | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | captured by Germany 14-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Braga | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | minesweeper 1913, wrecked 15-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Heimdall | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | subsidiary service 1918 |
-- | HNLMS Balder | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | minelayer 1910, captured by Germany 1940 |
-- | HNLMS Vidar | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | minelayer 1915, captured by Germany 18-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Vali | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | subsidiary service 1909 |
-- | HNLMS Ulfr | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | subsidiary service 1903 |
-- | HNLMS Dufa | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | discarded 1913 |
-- | HNLMS Hadda | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | minelayer 1909, captured by Germany 14-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Hefring | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | scuttled 14-05-1940 |
-- | HNLMS Udur | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | subsidiary service 1914 |
-- | HNLMS Bulgia | Wodan | Flat iron gunboat | Unknown | Unknown | minelayer 1925, sunk 12-05-1940 |
Brinio (Gruno) class
The Brinio class (sometimes referred to as Gruno class) was a class of three gunboats built by the Rijkswerf in Amsterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy.
Hull | Name | Class | Type | Commisioned | Decommisioned | Status |
-- | HNLMS Friso | Brinio | Gunboat | 02-07-1915 | 12-05-1940 | unknown |
-- | HNLMS Gruno | Brinio | Gunboat | 15-07-1915 | january 1940 | unknown |
-- | HNLMS Brinio | Brinio | Gunboat | 08-09-1914 | 14-05-1940 | Sunk 14-05-1940 Enkhuizen |
Flores class
The Flores-class gunboats were a class of two gunboats built in the mid-1920s for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Flores and Soemba were intended to patrol the Dutch East Indies. During World War II, they served in the Royal Netherlands Navy. They were in several ways the most successful surface ships of the Dutch navy during the war.
HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau
HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Johan Maurits van Nassau), named after John Maurice of Nassau, was a Dutch gunboat that served in the early part of World War II, when it was sunk. She was the sole ship of her class, which was developed from the earlier Flores class.
Hull | Name | Class | Type | Commisioned | Decommisioned | Status |
-- | HNLMS Flores | Flores | Gunboat | 23-03-1926 | 26-08-1968 | Scraped 12-11-1968 |
-- | HNLMS Soemba | Flores | Gunboat | 12-04-1926 | november 1954 | Scraped july 1955 |
-- | HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau | Johan Maurits | Gunboat | 05-04-1933 | 14-05-1940 | Sunk by Germans 14-05-1940 |
References:
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