HNLMS Sumatra (1890)

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Flag of the Netherlands.svgNetherlands
NameSumatra
BuilderKoninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen, Amsterdam
Launched1890
FateSold for scrap, 1907
General characteristics
Type Protected cruiser
Displacement1693 tons
Length229 ft 7 in (69.98 m)
Beam37 ft 1 in (11.30 m)
Draft15 ft 4 in (4.67 m)
Propulsion2,350 ihp (1,750 kW)
Speed17  kn (20 mph; 31 km/h)
Capacity207 to 276 tons of coal
Complement181
Armament
  • 1 × 8.2 inch/35 caliber gun
  • 1 × 5.9 inch/35 caliber gun [1]
  • 2 × 4.7 inch/35 caliber guns (2x1)
  • 4 × 1-pounder guns
  • 2 × 1-pounder revolvers
  • 2 × 14-inch torpedo tubes
Armor Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)

The Dutch cruiser HNLMS Sumatra was a small protected cruiser with a heavy main gun. The ship was named after the island of Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). It was discarded in 1907.

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Design and construction

The design resembled a smaller version of the Esmeralda concept (the 1883 protected cruiser built by Armstrong/Elswick shipyards for Chile) and is most similar in size to the Chinese protected cruiser Chi Yuan (1883) a ship built at about the same time as Esmeralda.

Sumatra was armed with: one 21 cm A. No. 2 (Krupp 21 cm L/35) forward and one 15 cm A. No.2 (Krupp 15 cm MRK L/35) aft, both in shields. On the sides were sponsons for two 12 cm L.A. The smaller guns were: one 7.5 cm A., four 3.7 cm, two 3.7 cm revolver guns, and one mr. 7.5 cm A. [1]

The Dutch Navy also built a larger protected cruiser with heavier armament, Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden launched in 1892, which had an 11-inch gun forward and was most comparable to the Japanese protected cruisers of the Matsushima type. [2] These ships represented a design philosophy in which navies that could not afford first-class battleships (including the Netherlands) mounted heavy weapons on coastal defense ships or moderately sized protected cruisers with the idea these ships would pose a threat to first-class opponents.

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  1. 1 2 Zeemacht 1900, p. 94.
  2. Conways, p.376

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