HNLMS Jan van Amstel (1936)

	Jan van Amstel
History
Netherlands
Name	Jan van Amstel
Namesake	Jan van Amstel
Builder	P. Smit, Rotterdam
Laid down	21 March 1936
Launched	27 August 1936
Commissioned	15 March 1937
Fate	Sunk, 8 March 1942
General characteristics
Class and type	Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper
Displacement	460 long tons (467 t)
Length	56.8 m (186 ft 4 in)
Beam	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft	2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 × Yarrow 3-drum boilers; 2 × Stork triple expansion engines, 1,600 ihp (1,193 kW); 2 shafts;
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	45
Armament	1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun; 2 × twin .50-calibre machine guns;

HNLMS Jan van Amstel was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.

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