HNLMS Tromp (1937)
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| Name: | Tromp |
| Builder: | Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam |
| Laid down: | 17 January 1936 |
| Launched: | 24 May 1937 |
| Commissioned: | 18 August 1938 |
| Decommissioned: | 1955 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1969 |
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| Class and type: | Tromp-class light cruiser |
| Displacement: | 3,400 long tons (3,455 t) standard |
| Length: | 132 m (433 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in) |
| Draught: | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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| Speed: | 32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 295–380 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Fokker C.XIW floatplane |
HNLMS Tromp was the lead ship of the Tromp-class light cruisers built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Built just prior to World War II, the cruiser served mainly in the Pacific and Indian Oceans against the Japanese, being based out of Sydney, Fremantle and Trincomalee where she served alongside British, Australian and US warships. After the war, the she returned to the Netherlands and after 1949 Tromp was used as a training and accommodation ship, before being decommissioned in 1955, and scrapped in 1969.
Originally designated as a flotilla leader and a torpedo cruiser in the Deckers Fleet Plan of 1931,Tromp was ordered in 1935 and laid down at the "Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij" (Netherlands Shipbuilding Company), in Amsterdam, on 17 January 1936. She was launched on 24 May 1937 and then commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy on 18 August 1938. She was named after Admirals Maarten Tromp and Cornelis Tromp.
Tromp was 132 m (433 ft 1 in) long, had a beam of 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in) and a draught of 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in). She displaced 3,450 tons at standard load with 860 tons of bunkerage. Powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, with four Yarrow boilers that drove two shafts and produced 56,000 shp (41,759 kW), she was capable of achieving a maximum speed of 32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h). Upon construction, the ship's complement was 295, although this later increased to 380.
Her armament consisted of six 149 mm (5.9 in) guns twin-mounted in three turrets, as well as two twin-mounted 40 mm Bofors guns. As built, she also had two twin-mounted .50 calibre machine guns, although these were later replaced with two single-mounted 20 mm Oerlikons. In addition, for anti-aircraft defence, she was later fitted out with an extra six 20 mm Oerlikon machine guns, four US-made 75 mm guns and four more 40 mm Bofors. She also carried six 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes in two banks of three, and was equipped with a Fokker C.XIW floatplane. Her anti-submarine features included ASDIC, a hydrophone, and four depth-charge throwers. Her deck armour was 1.5–2.5 in (38–64 mm), while her side belt armour was 1.5 in (38 mm).
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