Mr. Ms. Banckert (1929)
 The Banckert
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Mr. Ms. Banckert was a Dutch destroyer of admirals class , in 1930 in the Dutch Royal Navy was put into service. The destroyer named after Admiral Adriaen van Trappen Banckert (1615–1684) served in the waters of the Dutch East Indies .
After bomb damage, the ship was sunk on March 2, 1942 in Surabaja before the Japanese conquest itself. Lifted by the Japanese, the former Dutch destroyer is said to have been used as an escort ship in 1944. In autumn 1945 the damaged ship was returned to the Netherlands. The former destroyer was sunk as a target ship in 1949.
history
The destroyer was laid down on August 15, 1928 as one of the four of the second group of the admiral class at the Burgerhout shipyard in Rotterdam and was launched on November 14, 1929. The ship was put into service on November 14, 1930 and, like the ships of the first group, was intended for service in the Dutch East Indies .
In contrast to the four destroyers of the first group , the four ships of the second group only had one 75 mm anti-aircraft gun , but each received four modern 40 mm L / 60 Bofors guns . The bunkering capacity of the new destroyers was slightly larger than that of the units of the first group. The initially existing aircraft type Fokker C.VII-w was dismissed as obsolete in 1940/41.
Calls
The destroyer, like all ships of the class, was stationed in the Dutch East Indies. In addition to training and exercises in the Dutch colonial area, visits to neighboring countries were also carried out.
On October 20, 1936, the combined ship Van der Wijck of the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij sank on the voyage from Surabaya to Tandjong Priok, probably due to a seaquake. Banckert was one of the naval units that were sent to the scene of the accident to rescue shipwrecked people. Although the ship sank quickly, the rescue operations immediately initiated were able to save 210 people. First met nine Dornier Wal - flying boats from the NAS Morokrembangan at the last reported position of the luxury ship Post one that was now fallen. The flying boats reported the position of the castaways again and landed themselves despite the stormy weather and were able to take 90 castaways on board. The position reported again made it possible to save a further 120 castaways from the oily water by ships hurrying to Hille. Only 8 whites , 30 natives and 3 children could not be found. A memorial for the rescue of the shipwrecked Van der Wijck was erected in Lampong early on .
War missions
On February 3, 1942, the Japanese flew an air raid on Surabaya for the first time , while a Japanese landing force was gathering off Balikpapan . Admiral Hart , the commander of the Allied naval forces, ordered a unit under the command of the Dutch Rear Admiral Doorman to advance into Makassar Strait . The association ran on the night of 3/4. April from Madura . It consisted of the cruisers De Ruyter (as flagship), Houston , Marblehead and Tromp and the destroyers Barker , Bulmer , John D. Edwards , Stewart of the US Navy and Banckert , Piet Hein and Van Ghent of the Dutch fleet. On the morning of February 4th, the formation north of Bali was sighted and attacked by a Japanese aircraft squadron with 37 bombers and escorts. Marblehead was badly damaged by bomb hits and close-up impacts and only reached Tjilatjap with the screws; the third 8 inch turret failed on the Houston . The other ships were not damaged despite close hits; the ABDA units broke off the battle in the Strait of Makassar , turned over from the air due to a lack of security and entered Cilacap / Tjilatjap on the 6th for repairs.
On the night of 13./14. left an Allied attack force under Rear Admiral Doorman Batavia . It consisted of five cruisers (3 NL, 1 RN, 1 RAN) and ten destroyers (4 NL, 6 USN). Van Ghent was stranded on the march early on March 14th and was destroyed by the crew; the Banckert was able to deliver the crew, but then began the march back. Because of the danger posed by the allied formation, Admiral Ozawa had the foremost landing formation anchored off Muntok (Banka) and the main landing formation marched to the northeast. At the same time he tried to approach the allied unit with his units, but the latter withdrew because there was again no air security.
The Banckert went for urgently needed repairs to their early return to the rescued crew of Van Ghent immediately into the existing Schwiommdock. The probably insufficiently secured ship overturned in the dock during a Japanese air raid on February 24 and then received further damage in another air raid on the 28th. When the Allies evacuated Soerabaja on March 2, 1942, the Dutch submarine sank Mr. Ms. K XVIII the floating dock in the harbor with the severely damaged destroyer with artillery shots. On March 8, the last defenders of the port surrendered.
Under the Japanese flag and end of the destroyer
It is unclear whether the destroyer actually entered service under the Japanese flag. Due to a severe lack of security vehicles, the Japanese lifted the heavily damaged ship and wanted to bring it back into service as guard ship 106 . It is unclear whether the necessary repairs were ever completed. At the end of the war, the former destroyer was not operational and was returned to the Dutch Navy in a damaged condition.
The non-deployable Banckert came into the possession of the Dutch Navy again in autumn 1945, but was not repaired, but sunk as a target ship in Indonesia in September 1949.
As early as November 1945, the destroyer Quilliam, bought by the Royal Navy, was named Mr. Ms. Banckert put into service.
literature
- MJ Whitley: Destroyer in World War II. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 .
Web links
- Admiral class at netherlandsnavy.nl (engl.)
- Jürgen Rohwer, Gerhard Hümmelchen: Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945. Ed. Library for Contemporary History / Württemberg State Library Stuttgart 2007 to 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, Fleet Van der Wijck, built near Fijenoord, Rotterdam in 1921, 2,596 GRT, sunk in 1936, 58 dead
- ↑ M. van der Mey: Dornier Wal a Light coming over the Sea , p. 165
- ↑ Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck A story by Prof. Dr. Abdul Hamka (1908-1981), who represented racial discrimination in the Dutch East Indies, not only by the colonial power, but also among the natives; Based on the book, an Indonesian film was released in 2013 that wanted to build on the Titanic success.
- ^ Van Der Wijck Monument, The Witness of Tragedy from the Past. Lamongan - East Java
- ↑ Rohwer: naval warfare , 3.- 06/02/1942 Niederländ. India
- ^ Rohwer: Sea War , February 9–17, 1942 Dutch India, Japanese landing near Palembang (Sumatra).
- ↑ Admiral-class torpedo destroyer