Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer
Isaac Sweers, underway in 1942 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Gerard Callenburgh class |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Admiralen class |
| Succeeded by | Holland class |
| Built | 1937–1940 |
| In commission | 1941–1944 |
| Planned | 4 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Lost | 2 |
| General characteristics as designed (see text) | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 107 m (351 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 10.6 m (34 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h; 43.2 mph) |
| Range | 3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 158 |
| Armament |
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The Gerard Callenburgh class were a group of four destroyers ordered for the Royal Netherlands Navy just before World War II. Two ships were completed - Gerard Callenburgh by the Germans after being captured and Isaac Sweers in Britain after being evacuated as the Netherlands fell to the Nazis.