HNLMS Java (1921)

Java before reconstruction
History
Netherlands
Name:	Java
Builder:	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde in Flushing
Laid down:	31 May 1916
Launched:	6 August 1921
Commissioned:	1 May 1925
Fate:	Sunk on 27 February 1942
General characteristics
Type:	Java-class cruiser
Displacement:	6670 tons standard 8087 tons full load
Length:	155.3 m (509 ft 6 in)
Beam:	16 m (52 ft 6 in)
Draught:	6.22 m (20 ft 5 in)
Propulsion:	73,000 shp (54,000 kW), three shafts
Speed:	31 knots
Range:	4,340 nmi (8,040 km; 4,990 mi) at 11 or 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	526
Armament:	10 × Bofors 150 mm guns 8 × Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns 8 × Browning .50 machine guns
Armour:	7.5 cm (3.0 in) belt 2,5 to 5 cm (2.0 in) deck 12.5 cm (4.9 in) conning tower 10 cm (3.9 in) shields
Aircraft carried:	2 Fokker C.XI-W floatplanes

HNLMS Java (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Java) was a Java-class cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942.

The ship was built by the Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde in Flushing and laid down on 31 May 1916. The ship was launched on 6 August 1921, and commissioned on 1 May 1925.

Later that year on 14 October Java left the Netherlands for a journey to the Dutch East Indies. She arrived in Tanjung Priok on 7 December that year.

On 29 July 1929 Java, the destroyers De Ruyter and Evertsen, and the submarines K II and K VII left Surabaya and steamed to Tanjung Priok. There the ships waited for the royal yacht Maha Chakri of the King of Siam and the destroyer Phra Ruang. After this the ships, without the submarines, visited Bangka, Belitung, Riau, Lingga Islands, Belawan and Deli. On 28 August that year they returned to Tanjung Priok.

On 31 August that year she participated in a fleet review at Tanjung Priok. The review was held in honor of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who was born that day. Other ships that participated in the review where the destroyers De Ruyter and Evertsen.

On 23 August 1936 Java, her sister ship Sumatra and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein were present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13 November she and her sister and the destroyers Evertsen, Witte de With and Piet Hein made a fleet visit to Singapore. Before the visit they had practised in the South China Sea.