Home > HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen
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| Career |
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| Ordered: | ?? |
| Laid down: | 21 March 1936 |
| Launched: | 22 September 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1937 |
| Fate: | museum ship |
| Decommissioned: | 29 May 1961 |
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| Displacement: | 460 tons |
| Length: | 56.8 m (186 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.8 m (25.5 ft) |
| Draft: | 2.2 m (6.9 ft) |
| Speed: | 15 knots |
| Complement: | 45 |
| Armament: | one 75mm gun, 2 x 2 .50-cal MG |
The HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen was a Royal Netherlands Navy minesweeper, famous for its escape from Surabaya, Java in 1942, disguised as a tropical island.
She was the third of eight Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers, built at Gusto in Schiedam, and named after the 17th century16th century 17th century 18th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601- 1700. During this period, the power of England and the United Provinces increased; while that of navy commander Abraham Crijnssen .
The ship was stationed in the Dutch East IndiesThe Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, ( Dutch: Nederlands Indi was the name of the colonies colonised by the Dutch East India Company which came under administration of the Netherlands during the ninteenth century (see Indonesia). Starting in when JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh invaded in 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St. After the Allied fleet was destroyed in the Battle of the Java SeaThe Battle of the Java Sea was a major naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War Two. Allied ships suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy, in action over several days in February-March 1942. The action included the in February 1942, the Crijnssen was ordered to escape to AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count. The crew covered her thickly with tree branches, so that to observers she looked like one of the many small jungle islets of the area, and she was able to pass by the Japanese navy undetected.
After the war, she cleared many minefields in the East Indies, then returned to the NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium and became a net-guardian ship . Decommissioned in 1961, she was then operated by the Dutch Naval Cadet Corps , in 1995 was designated for preservation, and opened for visitors in July 1997 at the Dutch Naval Museum .
