The Keeten class was a ship class of three minesweepers that served in the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN) between 1946 and 1964.van Amstel (1991), pp. 83-84.Raven (1988), p. 184. They were former Royal Navy harbour defence motor launches sold to the RNN in 1946.
History The ships were used as patrol boats in the Dutch East Indies and in this role were equipped with a single 20 mm gun and a single machine gun. They were known as RP104, RP105 and RP106.
In 1949 the ships were reclassified as shallow-water minesweepers, with their hull numbers changing to MV31, MV32 and MV33 respectfully.
The three ships were decommissioned on 15 August 1951 and put on transport to The Netherlands on 2 September 1951. In February 1953 they were recommissioned as , and .
In January 1956 they left service as minesweepers and entered a refit period to become diving support vessels. When the entered service as diving support vessels, there hull numbers changed once more to Y8128, Y8129 and Y8130 respectively.
Mastgat and Zijpe were both decommissioned in 1962. Keeten was the last to be decommissioned in 1964.
Ships in class Hull number Name Builder / Decommissioned Fate Notes Source RP104 / MV31 M881 / Y8128 Jakhals Frederick Nichol, Durban, 1942 20 April 1946 15 August 1951 Ex-HMS HDML 1337 February 1953 1964 RP105 / MV32 M882 / Y8129 Panter Frederick Nichol, Durban 10 July 1946 15 August 1951 Sold to Wijsmuller bv. Ex-HMS HDML 1400 February 1953 20 December 1962 RP106 / MV33 M883 / Y8130 Hermelijn The Berthon Boat Company, Lymington 10 July 1946 15 August 1951 Sold to Hoekman bv. Ex-HMS HDML 1483 February 1953 October 1962
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