Buffel-class monitor

	Right elevation line drawing of the Buffel class
Class overview
Name	Buffel class
Operators	Royal Netherlands Navy
Preceded by	Schorpioen class
Succeeded by	Heiligerlee class
Built	1867–1870
In service	1869–1908
Completed	2
Scrapped	1
Preserved	1
General characteristics (as completed)
Type	Monitor
Displacement	2,198 long tons (2,233 t)
Length	205 ft 8 in (62.7 m) (o/a)
Beam	40 ft 4 in (12.3 m)
Draught	15 ft 9 in (4.8 m)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW); 4 boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 compound-expansion steam engines
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	117, later 159
Armament	1 × twin 23 cm Armstrong RML, replaced by: ; 1 x single 28 cm A No. 1 breechloader; 4 × single 30-pdr smoothbore guns;
Armour	Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm); Gun turrets: 8–11 in (203–279 mm); Deck: 0.75–1 in (19–25 mm); Conning tower: 5.7 in (144 mm);

The Buffel-class monitors were a pair of ironclad monitors built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s. They had uneventful careers and were stricken from the Navy List in the late 1890s. Guinea was scrapped in 1897, but Buffel was hulked and converted into an accommodation ship in 1896. She was captured by the Germans during World War II, but survived the war. She became a museum ship in 1979.

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