HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes (G16)

The camouflaged Tjerk Hiddes, 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Nonpareil
Builder	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Laid down	22 May 1940
Launched	25 June 1941
Fate	Transferred to Royal Netherlands Navy
Netherlands
Name	HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes
Namesake	Tjerk Hiddes de Vries
Completed	June 1942[1]
Acquired	27 May 1942
Commissioned	30 October 1942
Identification	Pennant number: G16
Fate	Sold to Indonesia, 1 March 1951
Indonesia
Name	RI Gadjah Mada
Namesake	Gajah Mada
Acquired	1 March 1951
Fate	Scrapped, 1961
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	N-class destroyer
Displacement	1,773 long tons (1,801 t) (standard)
Length	356 ft 6 in (108.7 m) (o/a)
Beam	35 ft 9 in (10.9 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	183
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC Type 285 gunnery radar Type 286 surface-search radar
Armament	3 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 1 × single 4 in (102 mm) AA gun 4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns 2 × twin 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machineguns 1 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × depth charge rack, 2 × throwers; 45 × depth charges

The destroyer HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes was a British built, Dutch warship of World War II. She was laid down on 22 May 1940 as a British N-class destroyer and launched on 25 June 1941 as HMS Nonpareil, but on 27 May 1942, she was transferred to the Royal Dutch Navy. The ship was commissioned in 1942^[1] as HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes, named after the 17th century Dutch admiral, Tjerk Hiddes de Vries. Much of her war service was with the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Indian Ocean and Australia, under the command of W. J. Kruys. Following the war, the destroyer was sold to Indonesia and renamed RI Gadjah Mada. She was scrapped in 1961.