SS Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Dutch passenger ship named after a former Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a Dutch passenger steamship that was launched in 1914. She was named after a former Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. During the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 she was scuttled as a blockship in the port of IJmuiden, North Holland to prevent the Kriegsmarine from using the port.[1]
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen in Sabang, about 1935 | |
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Netherlands | |
Name | Jan Pieterszoon Coen |
Namesake | Jan Pieterszoon Coen |
Owner | SM 'Nederland' |
Port of registry | Amsterdam |
Route | Amsterdam – Batavia |
Ordered | 27 December 1912 |
Builder | Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam |
Cost | 3,720,423 guilders |
Yard number | 130 |
Laid down | 14 October 1913 |
Launched | 30 September 1914 |
Completed | 17 June 1915 |
Acquired | 17 June 1915 |
Maiden voyage | 11 September 1915 |
In service | 11 September 1915 |
Out of service | 14 May 1940 |
Identification |
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Fate | Scuttled in 1940; scrapped in 1945 & 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger ship |
Tonnage | 11,693 GRT, 7,107 NRT, 6,950 DWT |
Displacement | 15,600 tons |
Length |
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Beam | 60.5 ft (18.4 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m) |
Depth | 35.8 ft (10.9 m) molded to shelter deck |
Decks | 7, 3 full length, and a shelter deck |
Installed power | 1,364 NHP, 7,400 ihp |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 kn (28 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 161 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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