• Source: HNLMS Sumatra (1890)

The Dutch cruiser HNLMS Sumatra was a small protected cruiser with a heavy main gun. The ship was named after the island of Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). It was discarded in 1907.




Design and construction


The design resembled a smaller version of the Esmeralda concept (the 1883 protected cruiser built by Armstrong/Elswick shipyards for Chile) and is most similar in size to the Chinese protected cruiser Chi Yuan (1883) a ship built at about the same time as Esmeralda.
Sumatra was armed with: one 21 cm A. No. 2 (Krupp 21 cm L/35) forward and one 15 cm A. No.2 (Krupp 15 cm MRK L/35) aft, both in shields. On the sides were sponsons for two 12 cm L.A. The smaller guns were: one 7.5 cm A., four 3.7 cm, two 3.7 cm revolver guns, and one mr. 7.5 cm A.
The Dutch Navy also built a larger protected cruiser with heavier armament, Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden launched in 1892, which had an 11-inch gun forward and was most comparable to the Japanese protected cruisers of the Matsushima type. These ships represented a design philosophy in which navies that could not afford first-class battleships (including the Netherlands) mounted heavy weapons on coastal defense ships or moderately sized protected cruisers with the idea these ships would pose a threat to first-class opponents.




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Bibliography


Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York: Mayflower Books. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
"Algemeen Overzicht der Scheepen en Vaartuigen van Oorlog". Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht. Vereins deutscher Eisen- und Stahlindustrieller und der Vereins deutscher Eisenhüttenleute. 1900. pp. 69–105.

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