HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst (1937)

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History
Netherlands
Name:	HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst
Namesake:	Abraham van der Hulst
Builder:	Gusto, Schiedam
Laid down:	13 November 1936
Launched:	31 May 1937
Commissioned:	11 October 1937
Fate:	Scuttled, 14 May 1940
History
Germany
Name:	M 553
Commissioned:	1940
Decommissioned:	April 1944
Fate:	Destroyed during an air raid, 20 August 1944
General characteristics
Class & type:	Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper
Displacement:	450 long tons (457 t) standard; 585 long tons (594 t);
Length:	56.70 m (186 ft 0 in) oa; 55.80 m (183 ft 1 in) pp;
Beam:	7.80 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft:	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Yarrow 3-drum boilers; 2 × Stork triple expansion engines, 1,690 ihp (1,260 kW); 2 shafts; 110 tons fuel oil;
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	46
Armament:	1 × 75 mm (3.0 in) gun; 2 × twin 12.7 mm machine guns;

HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst after she had struck a mine on 8 October 1939

HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1930s. The German invasion of the Netherlands resulted in the ship being scuttled at Enkhuizen on 14 May 1940, but was raised by the Germans and entered service as the Minesweeper M.553 with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.^[3] Sunk by a mine off East Prussia, 21 April 1944. Raised later. One source says she was returned to the Netherlands post war.^{[citation needed]}

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Jan van Amstel-class". Netherlandsnavy.net. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Lenton 1975, p. 355.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 394.

Gardiner, Robert and Roger Chesneau. Conway's All The World's Fighting Warships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
Lenton, H.T. German Warships of the Second World War. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1975. ISBN 0-356-04661-3.

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