HNLMS Van Ghent (1926)
HNLMS De Ruyter in the late 1920s | |
| History | |
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| Name | Van Ghent |
| Namesake | Willem Joseph van Ghent |
| Builder | Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde |
| Laid down | 28 August 1925 |
| Launched | 23 October 1926 |
| Commissioned | 31 May 1928 |
| Renamed | Van Ghent, 1934 |
| Fate | Scuttled 15 February 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Admiralen-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,310 long tons (1,331 t) standard |
| Length | |
| Beam | 9.45 m (31.0 ft) |
| Draft | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
| Installed power | 31,000 hp (23 MW) |
| Propulsion |
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| 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): 210 |
| Complement | 129 |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Fokker C.VII-W floatplane |
| Aviation facilities | 1 × davit |
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HNLMS Van Ghent (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Van Ghent) (originally named De Ruyter) was an Admiralen-class destroyer built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1920s. The destroyer served in the Netherlands East Indies but was wrecked after running aground in 1942.