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Tjerk Hiddes resumed peace time service with the Royal Netherlands Navy after completion of a refit at Dundee. She returned to the Dutch East Indies, and was transferred to newly-independent Indonesia in March 1951. Renamed KRI Gadjah Madashe was the flagship of the new nation's Navy. She was scrapped in 1961.
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Tjerk Hiddes resumed peace time service with the Royal Netherlands Navy after completion of a refit at Dundee. She returned to the Dutch East Indies, and was transferred to newly-independent Indonesia in March 1951. Renamed KRI Gadjah Madashe, she was the flagship of the new nation's Navy. She was scrapped in 1961.
  
  

Revision as of 18:56, 11 October 2023

HNLMS Tjerk Hides
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Tjerk Hiddes in Rotterdam, October 1949.
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History
Name HNLMS Tjerk Hides
Owner Royal Netherlands Navy
Builder William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton
Launched 25 Jun 1941
Completed 30 Oct 1942
In service 1942
Out of service 1961
Fate scrapped 1961
General characteristics
Type British N Class Destroyer
Tonnage 2,384 tons
Length 356 ft 6 in (108.7 m)
Beam 35 ft 9 in (10.9 m)
Depth draft 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 36 knots (66.67 km/h)
Capacity 183 crew



Remarks

The destroyer HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes was a British built, Dutch warship of World War II. Much of her war service was with the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Indian Ocean and Australia. On 4, 11, and 15 December she made three trips to rescue allied troops and civilians from Timor. She was also an escort for the final leg by the convoy that returned the 9th Division to Australia from the Middle East


Tjerk Hiddes resumed peace time service with the Royal Netherlands Navy after completion of a refit at Dundee. She returned to the Dutch East Indies, and was transferred to newly-independent Indonesia in March 1951. Renamed KRI Gadjah Madashe, she was the flagship of the new nation's Navy. She was scrapped in 1961.


Armament:

  • 3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
  • 1 × single QF 4-inch Mk V (102 mm) AA gun
  • 4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns
  • 2 × twin QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III machineguns
  • 1 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 45 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers

Soldiers carried

Timor to Darwin 15 - 18 Jan 1943