Drawing made by G.J. Naerebout and originally published by G.A.J. Bovens in Van Zee tot Zee. They claimes she was the American destroyer escort USS Abercrombie (DE-343)1943-1968. In fact it was the British monitor with the same name.
Of the Roberts-class. Ordered on 20 April 1941 and laid down at the shipyard of Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England on the 26th, launched on 31 March 1942, commissioned on 5 May 1943, since 1945 accommodation ship and finally decommissioned and broken up on 24 December 1954 at Barrow-in-Furness. With a displacement of 7.850 tons were her dimensions 113,77 x 27,36 x 3,4 metres or 373.25‘x 89.75‘x 11‘. Her crew numbered 350 men. The horsepower of 4.800 hp allowed a speed of 12,5 knots. The armament consisted of 1x2-38cm guns, 4x2-4’ anti aircraft guns, 1x8&2x4-2pd pom-pom guns, and 20-2cm guns. The armour consisted of a 4-5” thick belt with barbette and gun turret were protected by respectively 13” and 8” thick armour.
