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The ABC class was a class of six Police Cruisers of the Government Navy used for fishery protection, counter smuggling and small personnell and cargo transport. Minesweepers. Upon the declaration of war by the Netherlands on Japan following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the entire class was commandeered by the Royal Netherlands Navy and would be militarized and converted to Auxiliary Minesweepers.[1][2][3][4]
Scuttled by own crew at Tanjung Priok on 2 March 1942 after the Battle of the Java Sea made it seemingly impossible to escape to Australia. Salvaged&Repaired by Japanese forces, commissioned 10 August 1943 as submarine chaser Cha 117. Sunk by USS Hardhead 23 July 1945.[5]
February 1942 rescued 38 survivors from the troop transport ship Sloet van de Beele which was sunk by aircraft from Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō. Scuttled by own crew at Tanjung Priok on 2 March 1942 after the Battle of the Java Sea made it seemingly impossible to escape to Australia.
^von Münching, L.L. (1978). Schepen van de Koninklijke Marine in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (in Dutch). Alkmaar: De Alk. ISBN90-6013-903-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
Royal Netherlands Navy