Protected Cruisers: Holland Class

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Brian James
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Protected Cruisers: Holland Class

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Holland Class Protected Cuiser HNLMS Noordbrabant pictured c1900.
She was built at the Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde Shipyards at Flushing,Vlissingen and launched on January 17th 1899. She was commissioned on March 1st 1900. Later that year she visited Kiel and participated in the Kieler Woche (Kiel Regatta Week) where the German Emperor Wilhelm II made several visits to the ship.
On February 6th 1901 Noordbrabant left the port of Flushing for the Dutch East Indies. She arrived on March 23rd that year in Tanjung Priok. Later that year on April 16th she made a trip to Melbourne and Albany, Australia to represent the government of the Dutch East Indies at the opening of the Australian parliament in May 1901.
On June 17th 1905 Noordbrabant and her sisters Gelderland and Utrecht returned to the Netherlands. The journey made stops at Tanjung Priok Mahé, Perim, Port Said, Algiers and Tangier before arriving at Den Helder on August 30th.
Noordbrabant began a journey from Surabaya to San Francisco on August 28th 1909. The trip was made for the first time without using her sails. Coal was replenished at Manado, the Marshall Islands and Hawaii. On October 12th Noordbrabant arrived in San Francisco where the crew participated in the Portola feasts in commemoration of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
In 1910 Noordbrabant hit a reef on May 31st while en route to Surabaya. The collision caused the flooding of several compartments of the ship. Damaged as she was she could continue on steam on her own. Hertog Hendrik and Holland escorted the ship to Surabaya.
On June 18th 1914 the ship left for Durrës to retrieve the remains of Major Lodewijk Thomson and bring them back to the Netherlands. Thomson was killed during a peacekeeping mission there.On January 6th 1916 the British Submarine HMS E17 stranded on the Dutch coast but managed to pull itself loose. The commander of the submarine decided to later scuttle the boat outside territorial waters. The crew was picked up by Noordbrabant and brought to Den Helder.
She was decommissioned 1920 and was refitted as an Accommodation Ship. She was towed to Flushing in October 1926. On May 17th 1940 the ship was set on fire by her crew to prevent it from being captured by the invading German forces. Her wreck was eventually scrapped.
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Holland Class Protected Cruiser HNLMS Friesland pictured entering Den Helder c 1899.
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