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World War II Minesweepers of the Netherlands: Hnlms Abraham Crijnssen, Jan Van Amstel Class Minesweeper, Hnlms Jan Van Gelder

World War II Minesweepers of the Netherlands: Hnlms Abraham Crijnssen, Jan Van Amstel Class Minesweeper, Hnlms Jan Van Gelder


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Chapters: Hnlms Abraham Crijnssen, Jan Van Amstel Class Minesweeper, Hnlms Jan Van Gelder, Hnlms Abraham Van Der Hulst, Hnlms Pieter Florisz, M Class Minesweeper, a Class Minesweeper, Hnlms Jan Van Amstel, Hnlms Eland Dubois, Hnlms Willem Van Ewijck, Hnlms Pieter de Bitter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN). The ship is most famous for her escape from Surabaya, Java in 1942, disguised as a tropical island. She was the third of eight Jan van Amstel class minesweepers, built in 1936 at Gusto shipyards in Schiedam, and named after the 17th century naval commander Abraham Crijnssen. The ship was stationed in the Dutch East Indies when Japan invaded in 1941. After the Allied fleet was destroyed in the Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942, Abraham Crijnssen was ordered to escape to Australia. Several of her sister ships were scuttled or destroyed in the pursuit, and the Abraham Crijnssen was to be the last vessel to successfully escape Java. The crew under Lieutnant 2nd Class Anthonie van Miert covered her thickly with tree branches, so that to observers she looked like one of the many small jungle islets of the area. The cover was intended as much to protect her from aerial detection and attack as from enemy ships, since Japanese air superiority in the area was almost total at the time - and the minesweeper's defenses would not have been sufficient to protect itself against such air attacks. By lying up unmoving most of the day, the disguised vessel manged to blend in among the many islands of the area she was travelling through, and arrived in Geraldton, Western Australia, on March 15. HRMS Abraham Crijnssen disguised as a tropical island. A close-up...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=19847


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156932643
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156932645
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Hnlms Abraham Crijnssen, Jan Van Amstel Class Minesweeper, Hnlms Jan Van Gelder
  • Width: 229 mm


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