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Java in 1925. The ship was built by the Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde in Flushing and laid down on 31 May 1916. The ship was launched on 6 August 1921, and commissioned on 1 May 1925. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Later that year on 14 October Java left the Netherlands for a journey to the Dutch East Indies. She arrived in Tanjung Priok on 7 December that ...
The Java class was a class of light cruisers of the Royal Netherlands Navy, with the lead ship named after the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. Originally, three ships were planned: Java, Sumatra, and Celebes. Celebes was intended to be the flagship of the naval commander in the Dutch East Indies, and therefore she was slightly bigger ...
The Battle of the Java Sea ( Indonesian: Pertempuran Laut Jawa, Japanese: スラバヤ沖海戦, romanized : Surabaya oki kaisen, lit. ' Surabaya open-sea battle ') was a decisive [ 2] naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II . Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat at the hand of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942 ...
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HMS. Exeter. (68) HMS Exeter was the second and last York -class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–1936, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station.
HNLMS. De Ruyter. (1935) Sunk by heavy cruiser Haguro at battle of the Java Sea, February 27-28 1942. Later illegally salvaged. HNLMS De Ruyter ( Dutch: Hr.Ms. De Ruyter) was a light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was originally designed as a 5,000 long tons (5,080 t) ship with a lighter armament due to financial problems and the ...
Japanese cruiser. Haguro. Haguro (羽黒) was a Myōkō -class heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after Mount Haguro in Yamagata Prefecture. Commissioned in 1929, Haguro saw significant service during World War II, participating in nine naval engagements between 1942 and 1945. As a heavy cruiser, she was better armed and armored ...
Pages in category "Java-class cruisers". The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Java-class cruiser.