Pennant F. Part of Jan van Amster-class could be fitted out as minelayer. Laid down by P. Smit, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 22 November 1936, launched on 11 May 1937, commissioned on 13 September 1937, scuttled by own crew in the IJsselmeer before the Krabbersgat on 14 May 1940, salvaged by the Germans, repaired and commissioned as M 551, converted into a torpedo test ship in December 1940, added to the 27th U-boat flotilla, returned to the Dutch navy in 1945, patrol vessel in the Dutch East Indies between end 1947-1950, lent to the Zeekadettenkorps at IJmuiden, Netherlands since 1962, returned to the navy in 1986, sold to scrapyard Stolk, Hendrik Ido Ambacht in September 1976 and broken up in 2006 or 2008.
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