HNLMS Utrecht (1898)
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| Name: | Utrecht |
| Builder: | Rijkswerf, Amsterdam |
| Laid down: | 1897 |
| Launched: | 14 July 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 1 March 1901 |
| Decommissioned: | 1913 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Holland-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 4,033 tons |
| Length: | 94.7 m (310 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (48 ft 7 in) |
| Draught: | 5.41 m (17 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: | 10,000 ihp (7,500 kW), two shafts |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 324 |
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| Armour: | 5 cm (2.0 in) deck |
HNLMS Utrecht (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Utrecht) was a Holland-class protected cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
The ship was 94.7 metres (310 ft 8 in) long, had a beam of 14.8 metres (48 ft 7 in), a draught of 5.41 metres (17 ft 9 in), and had a displacement of 4,033 ton. The ship was equipped with 2 shaft reciprocating engines, which were rated at 10,000 ihp (7,500 kW) and produced a top speed of 20 knots (37 km/h). The ship had a deck armour of 2 in (5.1 cm). Two 5.9 in (15 cm) single turret guns provided the ship's main armament, and these were augmented by six single 4.7 in (12 cm) guns and four 3 in (7.6 cm) single guns. The ship had a complement of 324 men.
The ship was built at the Rijkswerf in Amsterdam and launched on 14 July 1898. The ship was commissioned on 1 March 1901. On 6 May that year Utrecht made a trip with adelborsten to the Mediterranean Sea. The ports of Cádiz, La Spezia, Naples and Toulon were visited. On 22 July, the ship arrived in the port of Flushing concluding the trip.
In 1902, Utrecht was sent to Venezuela together with Koningin Regentes and on 2 April 1902 they arrived in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira. Prior to their arrival, the Venezuelan Navy had repeatedly checked Dutch and Antillean merchant ships and the presence of the Dutch warships acted as a deterrent against further actions.
On 6 July 1904, Utrecht and Gelderland both ran aground near Aroes Lampoejang, South Sumatra because of incomplete maps. The ships where repaired in respectively Surabaya and Singapore. Later that year on 18 September, Utrecht assisted Van Outshoorn of the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij that had hit a cliff.
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