Tjerk Hiddes (G16)
 In the right foreground the Tjerk Hiddes on June 25, 1942 in Scapa Flow
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The Dutch destroyer Tjerk Hiddes (G16) was a British N-class destroyer . The destroyer was originally to be named Nonpareil and was sold by the Royal Navy in March 1941 with its sister ship Noble to the Dutch Navy before being launched and put into service as Tjerk Hiddes in May 1942 . During the Second World War he was assigned to the "7th Destroyer Flotilla" of the British Eastern Fleet , to which four sister ships lent to the Royal Australian Navy were subordinate. In November 1944 the destroyer returned to Great Britain for a shipyard overhaul and remained under British command in the "8th Destroyer Flotilla" until August 1945. During this time, it was being prepared for a future use in the Dutch East Indies at a British shipyard Was used from 1947 to 1949. In 1951 it was sold to Indonesia and renamed Gadjah Mada . In 1961 the warship was decommissioned and scrapped.
history
All seven Dutch destroyers that had remained of the navy after the occupation of the motherland were used in the East Indian colonies and were completely lost by February 1942. As replacements, two N- class destroyers still under construction , the HMS Nonpareil and the HMS Noble, were purchased by the Dutch government-in-exile in 1941 and put into service by the Royal Dutch Navy upon completion . They have been renamed Tjerk Hiddens and Van Galen .
The Tjerk Hiddes was named after the self-sunk on May 15, 1940, under construction destroyer Tjerk Hiddes of the class of the same name. The actual namesake is the Dutch admiral Tjerk Hiddes de Vries from the 17th century.
The Nonpareil was laid on May 22, 1940 at the William Denny and Brothers shipyard in Dumbarton , and it was launched on May 25, 1941.
The destroyer, handed over on May 27, 1942, was relocated to the Indian Ocean in the same year. He took part as part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla in September 1942 in Operations Steam and Jane to occupy Madagascar .
In December of the same year the Tjerk Hiddes ran to Australia . There the destroyer was involved in the evacuation of Timor with three trips . A total of 950 people (the last soldiers, apart from a few officers, of the first army units that were sent to Timor as the Sparrow Force , together with Portuguese civilians) were brought to Port Darwin by the destroyer between December 10 and 12, 1942 .
Until 1943, the ship was used in Australian waters, where he accompanied the march of the convoy Pamphlet , an association of transport ships from Suez to Melbourne and Sydney , in the last part of the journey to Melbourne as part of the security association. In January 1944 he joined forces with Van Galen to strengthen the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
After the war, the destroyer was kept in service and sold to Indonesia on March 1, 1951. There it was used under the new name Gadjah Mada ; In 1961 it was scrapped.
technical description
The armament consisted of six 12 cm cannons in double mounts Mk XII for use against sea and air targets (two towers in front of the bridge, the rear in an elevated position; a mount on a platform in the rear). As an anti-aircraft armament, the destroyer had a two-pounder Mk VII quadruple gun on a platform behind the funnel, as well as four to six 2-cm anti-aircraft guns. Ten torpedo tubes in two sets of five tubes each completed the armament.
Others
Since 1967 there have been two more ships named Hr. Ms. Tjerk Hiddes .
Individual evidence
- Website Chronicle of the Naval War :
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Seekrieg 1942, September , accessed on November 11, 2007.
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Seekrieg 1942, December , accessed on July 4, 2008
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Seekrieg 1943, February , accessed on November 11, 2007
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Seekrieg 1944, January , accessed on November 11, 2007
- Bibliography:
- ↑ Harald Fock: Z-before! International development and war missions of destroyers and torpedo boats, Vol. 2. During World War II: 1940–1945. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0762-9 , p. 380
- ↑ MJWhitley: Destroyer in World War II . Motorbuch Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 (Original: Destroyers of World War Two . Arms & Armours Press, London), pp. 215/219
- ↑ MJWhitley: Destroyer in World War II . Motorbuch Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 (Original: Cruisers of World War Two . Arms & Armor Press, London), p. 219
- Web references:
- ↑ Shipmotions.nl: Bouwnummer RDM-207, Mr. Ms. "Tjerk Hiddes", 1940, torpedobootjager ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Remarks
- ↑ MJWhitley: Destroyer in World War II gives the date of launch as May 26, 1941.
literature
- MJWhitley: Destroyer in World War II . Motorbuch Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 (Original: Destroyers of World War Two . Arms & Armor Press, London), pp. 114–118 (N-Class), 219, 215.
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