The Koningin Regentes class was a class of coastal defence ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised Koningin Regentes, De Ruyter and Hertog Hendrik.Jane (1970), p. 313.

Design

The ships of the class were long, had a beam of , a draught of , and had a displacement of 5,002 ton. The ships were equipped with 2 shaft reciprocating engines, which were rated at and produced a top speed of . In addition, the machinery had two sets of triple expansions.

Armor When it came to naval armour all three ships were equipped with Krupp armour. The ships had belt armour of , barbette armour and turret armour. Deck armour of the Koningin Regentes class was .Jane (1900), p. 157.

A small improvement over the preceding was that the 15 cm guns were now also protected by decent shields, instead of having only 12 mm armor protection. However, it still had some minor deficiencies when compared to similar coastal defense ships at the time, such as the ships of the Monarch class.Evers (1902), p. 109. For instance, the protection of the conning tower of Koningin Regentes class did not fully extend to the deck armour. In addition, its belt armour was considered too thin.

Armament The artillery of the Koningin Regentes class was a big step forward in comparison with the smaller . The main and secondary battery were now all L/40 long quick firing guns. Some applauded the minister for this choice of armament.

The main armament of the ships were two 24 cm SK L/40 guns in single turrets. In fact, the German Navy used the same gun as main armament on their newest battleships of the . The quick fire capability of this gun meant that it fired about three rounds a minute. This made the difference with the 21 cm guns of the Evertsens even greater.

Secondary armament included four single guns This was also an improvement over the two 15 cm quick-firing guns of the Evertsens, which were also shorter. There were eight No. 3 single guns.The ships had three torpedo tubes of which two were submerged and one was above water at the bow.

Ships + Construction data Name Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Shipyard 1898 24 April 1900 3 January 1902 1920 Rijkswerf, Amsterdam 1900 28 September 1901 29 October 1902 1923 Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord, Rotterdam 8 March 1901 7 June 1902 5 January 1904 27 September 1968 Rijkswerf , Amsterdam

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