HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (1906)

	Jacob van Heemskerck
History
Netherlands
Name	Jacob van Heemskerck
Namesake	Jacob van Heemskerck
Builder	Rijkswerf, Amsterdam
Laid down	1905
Launched	22 September 1906
Commissioned	22 April 1908
Recommissioned	23 February 1948
Decommissioned	13 September 1974
Renamed	Batterijschip IJmuiden (1939); Neptunus (1948);
Reclassified	Floating battery ship, 1939; Accommodation ship, 1948;
Stricken	4 October 1974
Fate	Scrapped
Nazi Germany
Name	Undine
Namesake	Undine
Acquired	16 July 1940
Commissioned	1943
Reclassified	Anti-aircraft battery, 1943
Fate	Returned to the Netherlands postwar
General characteristics
Type	Unique coastal defence ship
Displacement	4,920 tons
Length	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam	15.19 m (49 ft 10 in)
Draught	5.69 m (18 ft 8 in)
Installed power	6,400 hp (4,800 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, reciprocating engines
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Complement	340
Sensors and ; processing systems	as Undine; FuMO 213;
Armament	as Jacob van Heemskerck; 2 × 9.4 in (24 cm) (2 × 1); 6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) (6 × 1); 6 × 7.5 cm (3.0 in) (6 × 1); 4 × 1pdr (4 × 1); 2 × 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes; as Undine; 8 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) (8 × 1); 5 × 4 cm (1.6 in) (2 × 2, 1 × 1); 4 × quad 2 cm (0.79 in);
Armour	6 in (15 cm) belt; 8 in (20 cm) barbette; 8 in (20 cm) turret;

HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Jacob van Heemskerck) was a unique coastal defence ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy built by the Rijkswerf in Amsterdam. She was among the ships send to patrol the Venezuelan coast during the Second Castro Crisis. After her active career she was rebuilt into a stationary battery ship and recommissioned. During World War II she was captured by the invading German forces and converted in an anti-aircraft battery. After the war the ship was recovered and given back to the Netherlands, to be converted to an accommodation ship.

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