The Wolf- or Fret-class destroyers, also known as the Roofdier class, lit. "predator",From , "robbery" and , "animal". See the Wiktionary article for more information. were a class of eight destroyers that were built between 1910 and 1913 for the Royal Netherlands Navy to serve in the Dutch East Indies. They were the first Dutch destroyers built after a British design. The first six ships were built by Koninklijke Schelde Groep De Schelde shipyards in Vlissingen, and the last two by Fijenoord in Rotterdam. The ships were replaced at the end of the 1920s by the .

Design The ships displaced and measured in length overall, in breadth, with a draught. They were powered by four Yarrow boilers installed creating steam that produced . They had two Krupp-Germania steam turbines that drove two shafts. The first four ships, , , , and , each carried of coal, the last four, , , , and , carried an additional of fuel oil in addition to the 120 t of coal. This gave the last four ships an additional of endurance.

The ships were armed with four /52-calibre guns, four /80-calibre machine guns, and two torpedo tubes.

Ships NameLaid downLaunchedCompletedBuilderFate 1909 17 September 1910 1911 Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing Stricken 1924 1909 15 October 1910 1911 Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing Stricken 1922 1910 20 December 1911 August 1912 Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing Stricken 1927 1910 20 January 1912 July 1912 Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing Stricken 1928 1911 22 February 1913 July 1913 Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing Stricken 1925 1911 24 December 1912 July 1913 Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing Stricken 1928 1912 28 June 1913 February 1914 Feijenoord, Schiedam Stricken 1928 1912 9 September 1913 March 1914 Feijenoord, Schiedam Stricken 1934

They are named after mammals of the order Carnivora (Roofdieren is a synonym for carnivore in Dutch). Their names in English, in the sequence listed, mean: wolf, ferret, bulldog, jackal, ermine, lynx, fox and panther.

See also List of destroyers of the Netherlands

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