HNLMS Tjerk Hides

HNLMS Tjerk Hides

Tjerk Hiddes in Rotterdam, October 1949.
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

• Frederick Arnold Griffiths