HNLMS Bangkalan

HNLMS Bangkalan
History
Netherlands
Name	Bangkalan
Builder	Nederlands-Indische Scheepsbouw en Kustvaart Maatschappij, Lasem
Laid down	25 August 1927
Launched	1927 [ citation needed ]
Commissioned	16 February 1942
Out of service	2 March 1942
Namesake	Bangkalan
Fate	Scuttled by own crew
General characteristics
Type	Minelayer
Displacement	397 t (391 long tons) standard
Length	43 m (141 ft 1 in)
Beam	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draught	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Installed power	360  hp (270 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Triple expansion
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	26
Armament	1 × 7.5 cm (3.0 in) cannon 2 x 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine gun 30 Mines

HNLMS Bangkalan was originally the tug Willem van Braam serving the Government Navy. She would be renamed to Hydrograaf in the late 1920s or early 1930s after which she would serve as an ocean research vessel. She would be renamed again in 1935 to Bangkalan and be militarized in 1939 by the Government Navy itself. She would be commandeered by the Royal Netherlands Navy upon the start of the Pacific theatre of World War II. ^[1]

Service history

HNLMS Bangkalan would be converted to minelayer at the Marine Etablissement in Surabaya in early 1942. She would ultimately meet her fate there as she was not able to leave in time before the fall of Java, trapping her causing her to be scuttled by her own crew on 2 March 1942. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

References

1. Mark, Chris (1997). Schepen van de Koninklijke Marine in W.O. II (in Dutch). Alkmaar, Holland: De Alk. ISBN   978-90-6013-522-8.
2. von Münching, L. L. (1978). Schepen van de Koninklijke Marine in de tweede wereldoorlog (in Dutch). Alkmaar: Alk. ISBN   978-90-6013-903-5.
3. Bezemer, K.W.L. (1967). Verdreven doch niet verslagen (in Dutch). Hilversum: Uitgeversmaatschappij W. de Haan N.V. ISBN   9026920415.
4. Bezemer, K. W. L. (1987). Verdreven doch niet verslagen: verdere verrichtingen der Koninklijke marine in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (in Dutch). Houten: De Boer maritiem. ISBN   978-90-269-2041-7.