Maritime History

HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (1909)

HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën was a Royal Netherlands Navy coastal defence ship in service from 1910 until 1942. She served part of her career in the Dutch East Indies, from 1911 to 1918 and from 1921 onward. During the 1920s, her crew included the future Rear Admiral Karel Doorman. She suffered a high-profile mutiny on 5 February 1933, which had far-reaching implications for politics in the Netherlands. She was renamed Soerabaja in 1936. On 18 February 1942, Soerabaja was sunk by Japanese bombers. The Japanese raised her and used her as a battery ship; one report is that she was sunk again by Allied aircraft in 1943; a second report is that she was raised two years after being sunk by the Japanese but was wrecked five miles north of Djamoenjan Reef, Indonesia.

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See also

• ▸HMS Ajax (1809)
• ▸Eastern meadow vole
• ▸HMCS Ypres

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