HNLMS Bangkalan
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NameBangkalan
BuilderNederlands-Indische Scheepsbouw en Kustvaart Maatschappij, Lasem
Laid down25 August 1927
Launched1927 [citation needed]
 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 |
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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]
