HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden
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.jpg) Painting of Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden with her bulwarks down to show the gun turrets | |
| History | |
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| Name | Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden |
| Namesake | Prince Henry of the Netherlands |
| Builder | Laird & Sons, Birkenhead |
| Laid down | August 1865 |
| Launched | 9 October 1866 |
| Completed | March 1867 |
| Decommissioned | 5 May 1899 |
| Fate | Scrapped after 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ironclad turret ship |
| Displacement | 3,375 metric tons (3,322 long tons) |
| Length | 230 ft (70.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam | 44 ft (13.4 m) |
| Draught | 18 ft 8 in (5.7 m) |
| Installed power | 2,426 ihp (1,809 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barque-rigged |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 230 |
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HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden[a] was an ironclad ramtorenschip[1] (turret ram ship) built in Great Britain for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the mid-1860s. She was transferred to the Dutch East Indies in 1876 and participated in the Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem in 1894. The ship was hulked in 1899 and scrapped in 1925.
Propulsion
HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden was ordered from Laird & Son Co. by the Royal Netherlands Navy as an enlarged version of the Scorpion-class ironclad turret ships originally ordered by the Confederate States Navy.[2] The gun turrets was normally rotated by two men via a system of gears; 20 seconds were required for a full 360° rotation if a full crew of 19 men was used. The ship's bow was reinforced to act as a ram and a hurricane deck connected the forecastle and poop decks. For sea passages the ship's freeboard could be increased to 14 feet (4.3 m) by use of hinged bulwarks 5 feet (1.5 m) high.[3]
The ship had a length between perpendiculars of 230 feet (70.1 m), a beam of 44 feet (13.4 m), and a draught of 18 feet 8 inches (5.69 m). She displaced 3,375 tonnes (3,322 long tons). The iron hull was divided by five watertight bulkheads and the ship had a double bottom beneath the engine and boiler rooms. Her crew consisted of 230 officers and men.[4]
Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden had two horizontal return connecting rod compound steam engines,[5] built by Lairds, each driving a single 15-foot-6-inch (4.7 m) propeller.[3] The engines were powered by four square boilers.[5] The engines produced a total of 2,426 indicated horsepower (1,809 kW) which gave the ship a maximum speed of 12.09 knots (22.39 km/h; 13.91 mph) during her sea trials. She carried 380 long tons (390 t) of coal and was barque-rigged with three masts. Her fore and mainmasts were supported by tripods to reduce interference with the firing arcs of the gun turrets by the ship's rigging. Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden had a total sail area of 1,554 square meters (16,730 sq ft).[3]
Armament
The ship mounted a pair of Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns in each gun turret. Each gun weighed 12.5 long tons (12.7 t). Two Krupp produced 12 cm K.A. breech-loading guns were fitted in the forecastle and another pair in the poop as chase guns. Six 37-millimeter (1.5 in) Hotchkiss 5-barrel revolving guns were added shortly after completion.[2] They fired a shell weighing about 1.1 lb (0.50 kg) at a muzzle velocity of about 2,000 ft/s (610 m/s) to a range about 3,500 yards (3,200 m). They had a rate of fire of about 30 rounds per minute[6]
Armor
Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden had a complete waterline belt of wrought iron that was 4.5 inches (114 mm) thick. Amidships, for a length of 120 feet (36.6 m), the armor belt had a height of 12 feet (3.7 m) of which 3 feet (0.9 m) below the waterline. At the bow and stern the belt was only 2.5 feet (0.8 m) high above the waterline. 4.5-inch transverse bulkheads were provided to protect the bases of the turrets and the machinery spaces from raking fire. Each turret was protected by 5.5-inch (140 mm) armor plates, although the total thickness around the gun ports was 11 inches (279 mm). The deck was unarmored.[3] http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=sgd:18741875:0001253:pdf