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Sunday, 18 December 2022

Dutch coastal defence ship De Zeven Provincien bound for the Dutch East Indies according to the Weekly Intelligence Summary No. 43 dated 29 October 1921

De Zeven Provincien

M.H. Tromp

An item reported that the Dutch cruiser Zeven Provincien (1) was commissioned at Nieuwediep, Netherlands on 21 October. She was to relieve the Hr.Ms. Tromp (2) in the Dutch East Indies.

Notes

1. Laid down by Rijkswerf, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 7 February 1908, launched on 15 March 1909, commissioned on 6 October 1910, renamed Soerabaja in 1936, sunk in a Japanese air attack on 18 February 1942, salvaged, sunk in an Allied air attack in 1943. Claimed raised in 1944 after she sunk in 1942 but wrecked. Coastal defence ship .

2. Coastal defence ship Marten Harpertszoon Tromp, laid down by Rijkswerf Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1903, launched on 15 June 1904, commissioned on 5 April 1906, decommissioned in 1927, stricken in 1932, sold and departed on 6 December 1933 to the scrapyard at Pernis, Netherlands.

Source

The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-129-57

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