HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen (1936)
HMAS/HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen
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| Name: | HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen |
| Namesake: | Abraham Crijnssen |
| Builder: | Werf Gusto, Schiedam, The Netherlands |
| Laid down: | 21 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1937 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 August 1942 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the RAN |
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| Name: | HMAS Abraham Crijnssen |
| Commissioned: | 26 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 May 1943 |
| Fate: | Returned to RNN |
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| Recommissioned: | 5 May 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 May 1961 |
| Reclassified: | Net-defence ship |
| Status: | Preserved as museum ship |
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| Class and type: | Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 525 tons |
| Length: | 184 ft (56 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draught: | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
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| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 45 |
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HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN). Built during the 1930s, she was based in the Netherlands East Indies when Japan attacked at the end of 1941. Ordered to retreat to Australia, the ship was disguised as a tropical island to avoid detection, and was the last Dutch ship to escape from the region. On arriving in Australia in 1942, she was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Abraham Crijnssen and operated as an anti-submarine escort. Although returned to RNN control in 1943, the ship remained in Australian waters for most of World War II. After the war, Abraham Crijnssen operated on anti-revolution patrols in the East Indies, before returning to the Netherlands and being converted into a boom defence ship in 1956. Removed from service in 1960, the vessel was donated to the Netherlands Sea Cadet Corps for training purposes. In 1995, Abraham Crijnssen was acquired by the Dutch Navy Museum for preservation as a museum ship.
Abraham Crijnssen was the third of eight Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers constructed for the RNN during the late 1930s. Built by Werf Gusto at their yard in Schiedam, South Holland, the minesweeper was launched on 22 September 1936, and commissioned into the RNN on 26 May 1937. She was named after 17th century naval commander Abraham Crijnssen.
Abraham Crijnssen and her sister ships were 184 feet (56 m) long, with a beam of 25 feet (7.6 m), a draught of 7 feet (2.1 m), and a displacement of 525 tons. The minesweepers were fitted with two Yarrow 3-drum boilers and two Storktriple expansion engines, which provided 1,690 ihp (1,260 kW) to two propeller shafts, allowing the ship to reach 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).Abraham Crijnssen was armed with a single 3-inch gun, and two Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, plus a payload of depth charges. The standard ship's company was 45.
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