HNLMS Piet Hein (1894)


HNLMS Piet Hein was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Design

The ship was long, had a beam of, a draught of, and had a displacement of 3,464 ton. The ship was equipped with 2 shaft reciprocating engines, which were rated at and produced a top speed of. The ship had a belt armour of and barbette armour. The main armament of the ship was three 21 cm L/35| guns in a double and single turret. Secondary armament included two single 15 cm SK L/35| guns and six single guns.

Service history

The ship was laid down in 1893 at the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij in Rotterdam and launched on 16 August 1894. The ship was commissioned on 3 January 1896.
On 11 May 1896 during the harbor strikes in Rotterdam a ban on assembly was declared. Two days later patrolled the Meuse. The ship was later relieved by her sister ships, Piet Hein and the police schooner Argus. 300 grenadiers were deployed during the strikes. The strikes were ended on 21 may.
In 1900 the ships together with the and was sent to Shanghai to save guard European citizens and Dutch interests in the region during the Boxer Rebellion. Piet Hein returned in February 1901 to Soerabaja in the Dutch East Indies.
The ships was finally decommissioned in 1914.