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Banckert

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ClassAdmiralen class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
BuilderBurgerhout, Rotterdam
Launched1929-11-14
Commissioned1930-11-14
FateSunk. Scuttled at Surabaya in March 1942 after damage from Japanese aircraft. Not credited to one ship.
Armament (class)Dutch destroyer. Four guns and two funnels.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Admiralen-class destroyer. Damaged by Japanese aircraft at Surabaya and scuttled there in March 1942. Not credited to one ship. This is not the later Dutch Banckert, the former British destroyer Quilliam.

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