HNLMS Witte de With (1928)

For other ships with the same name, see HNLMS Witte de With.

History

Netherlands
Name:	Witte de With
Namesake:	Witte de With
Builder:	Fijenoord
Laid down:	28 May 1927
Launched:	11 September 1928
Commissioned:	20 February 1930
Fate:	Scuttled, 2 March 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	Admiralen-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,316 long tons (1,337 t) standard 1,640 long tons (1,666 t) full load
Length:	98 m (321 ft 6 in)
Beam:	9.53 m (31 ft 3 in)
Draft:	2.97 m (9 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	Parsons geared turbines 3 × Yarrow type boilers 31,000 hp (23 MW) 2 shafts
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	149
Armament:	4 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (4×1) 1 × 75 mm (3 in) AA gun 4 × 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 4 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) guns 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2×3)
Aircraft carried:	1 × seaplane

HNLMS Witte de With (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Witte de With) was an Admiralen-class destroyer, named after a famous Dutch admiral of the 17th century. She served during World War II.

Service history

The ship was laid down on 28 May 1927 at the shipyard of Fijenoord in Rotterdam and launched on 11 September 1928. The ship was commissioned on 20 February 1930.^[1]

16 November 1935 Witte de With her sister Van Galen and the cruiser Sumatra made a visit to Saigon.^[2]

On 23 August 1936 Sumatra, her sister Java and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein where present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13 November both Java-class cruisers and the destroyers Evertsen, Witte de With and Piet Hein made a fleet visit to Singapore. Before the visit they had practiced in the South China Sea.^[3]

World War II

The ship took part in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942. HMS Exeter was damaged in the battle and escorted back to Surabaya by Witte de With. A few days later Witte de With was attacked and damaged by Japanese planes on 1 March 1942. The next day she was scuttled.^[1]

References

1 2 "netherlandsnavy.nl". Retrieved 2013-10-12.
↑ "scheepvaartmuseum.nl :: Maritieme kalender 1935". Retrieved 2013-10-12.
↑ "scheepvaartmuseum.nl :: Maritieme kalender 1936". Retrieved 2013-10-12.

Admiralen-class destroyers

First group	Van Ghent / De Ruyter Evertsen Piet Hein Kortenaer

Second group	Van Galen Witte de With Banckert Van Nes

Preceded by: Wolf class Followed by: Gerard Callenburgh class

List of destroyers of the Royal Netherlands Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1942

Shipwrecks	1 Mar: USS Edsall, HMS Encounter, HNLMS Evertsen, HMS Exeter, USS Houston, USS Pecos, HMAS Perth, USS Pope, Rooseboom, U-656 2 Mar: HNLMS Banckert, USAT Don Esteban, Ha-13, HNLMS K X, HNLMS K XIII, HNLMS K XVIII, HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden, USS Pillsbury, USS Stewart, Toendjoek, HNLMS Witte de With 3 Mar: USS Asheville, USS Perch 4 Mar: HMAS Yarra 6 Mar: HNLMS Pieter de Bitter 7 Mar: Arabutan 8 Mar: HNLMS Eland Dubois, HNLMS Jan van Amstel 10 Mar: Lady Nelson, Kongō Maru, Tenyo Maru, Yokohama Maru 11 Mar: HMS Naiad 12 Mar: Texan 13 Mar: Tama Maru No. 2 14 Mar: U-133 15 Mar: U-503, HMS Vortigern 17 Mar: Île de Batz, San Demetrio 18 Mar: E.M. Clark 19 Mar: Papoose 20 Mar: HMS Heythrop 21 Mar: Vamar 23 Mar: British Prudence 24 Mar: HMS Southwold, U-655 26 Mar: HMS Jaguar, HMS Legion, HMS P39 27 Mar: USS Atik, U-587 28 Mar: HMS Campbeltown, Raceland 29 Mar: Hertford, Z26 30 Mar: U-585

Other incidents	2 Mar: Ruth Kellogg, HMS Walney 4 Mar: HMAS Tambar 5 Mar: Takao Maru 10 Mar: China Maru, Tama Maru No. 2 11 Mar: Komintern 15 Mar: Olean 16 Mar: Irish Willow, U-753 22 Mar: Kingston 25 Mar: Imperial Transport

1941 1942 1943 February 1942 April 1942

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