| Tromp-class
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Royal Netherlands Navy ensign
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 3350 tons standard
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| Length:
| 131.95 m
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| Beam:
| 12.43 m
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| Draught:
| 4.32 m
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| Propulsion:
| 2 Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers, 2 shafts, 56 000 shp
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| Speed:
| 32,5 knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 380 (Tromp), 420 (Jacob van Heemskerk)
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| Armament:
| Tromp
6 x Bofors 149mm
8 x Bofors 40 mm AA gun
4 x 75mm AA gun
6 x Oerlikon 20mm AA gun
4 x Vickers .50 MG
6 x 533mm torpedo tubes
4 DC throwers
| Jacob van Heemskerk
10 x 10.2 cm
8 x Vickers 40mm AA gun
6 x Oerlikon 20mm AA gun
4 DC throwers
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| Aircraft:
| 1 Fokker C-11W floatplane (Tromp), none (Jacob van Heemskerk)
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The Tromp class was a class of light cruisers of the Royal Netherlands Navy. They were ordered in 1935; HNLMS Tromp was launched in 1937, and her sister ship HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerk in 1939.
At the outbreak of World War II, Tromp was sent to the Dutch East Indies. Jacob van Heemskerk was still being completed in the naval shipyard in Den Helder when the German attack started on May 10, 1940, but she succeeded in escaping to the United Kingdom, where she was completed as an anti-aircraft cruiser (the fire control system for her main battery was unfinished, and it was impractical to install an entirely new British fire control system). Both ships survived the war, Tromp to be decommissioned in 1955 and sold for scrap in 1969 and Jacob van Heemskerk to become an artillery instruction ship in 1947, decommissioned in 1969 and sold for scrap in 1970.
External links
Tromp-class cruiser (http://www.netherlandsnavy.nl/Tromp.htm)
