HNLMS Willem van Ewijck (1937)

History

Netherlands
Name:	HNLMS Willem van Ewijck
Builder:	P. Smit, Rotterdam
Laid down:	1936
Launched:	22 February 1937
Commissioned:	19 July 1937
Fate:	Sunk, 8 September 1939
General characteristics
Class and type:	Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper
Displacement:	460 long tons (467 t)
Length:	56.8 m (186 ft 4 in)
Beam:	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Draft:	2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Yarrow 3-drum boilers 2 × Stork triple expansion engines, 1,600 ihp (1,193 kW) 2 shafts 110 tons fuel oil
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	45
Armament:	1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun 2 × twin .50-calibre machine guns

Service history

Willem van Ewijck was sunk on 8 September 1939 after hitting a mine off Terschelling. Thirty-three of the crew were killed.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1939

Shipwrecks	1 Sep: ORP Mazur 3 Sep: Athenia, ORP Gryf, ORP Mewa, ORP Wicher 6 Sep: ORP General Haller 8 Sep: HNLMS Willem van Ewijck 10 Sep: SS Magdapur, HMS Oxley 13 Sep: Davara, Pluton 14 Sep: Fanad Head, ORP Jaskółka, U-39 16 Sep: Rudyard Kipling 17 Sep: HMS Courageous 18 Sep: ORP Warszawa 20 Sep: U-27 23 Sep: Martti Ragnar 24 Sep: Phryné 29 Sep: HMS Caledonia 30 Sep: ORP Komendant Piłsudski

Other incidents	2 Sep: USS Pigeon 3 Sep: Hannah Böge 4 Sep: Christian Van Doornum 16 Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker

1938 1939 1940 August 1939 October 1939

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