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| Name | HNLMS Pieter de Bitter |
| Namesake | Pieter de Bitter |
| Builder | P. Smit, Rotterdam |
| Laid down | 21 March 1936 |
| Launched | 29 October 1936 |
| Commissioned | 26 May 1937 |
| Fate | Scuttled, 6 March 1942 |
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| 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) |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 45 |
| Armament |
- 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun
- 2 × twin .50-calibre machine guns
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HNLMS Pieter de Bitter was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy that served in World War II.
Service history
Pieter de Bitter was scuttled at Surabaya on 6 March 1942.
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1942 |
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| Shipwrecks |
- 1 Mar: USS Edsall, HMS Encounter, HNLMS Evertsen, HMS Exeter, USS Houston, USS Pecos, HMAS Perth, USS Pope, Rooseboom, U-656
- 2 Mar: HNLMS Banckert, USAT Don Esteban, Ha-13, HNLMS K X, HNLMS K XIII, HNLMS K XVIII, HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden, USS Pillsbury, USS Stewart, Toendjoek, Van Waerwijck, HNLMS Witte de With
- 3 Mar: USS Asheville, Koolama, SS Mary, USS Perch
- 4 Mar: HMAS Yarra
- 5 Mar: Auby
- 6 Mar: HNLMS Pieter de Bitter, Rononia
- 7 Mar: Arabutan, HNLMS Gouden Leeuw, Nyggjaberg, Uniwaleco
- 8 Mar: HNLMS Eland Dubois, HNLMS Jan van Amstel, Smyshlyony
- 10 Mar: Lady Nelson, Kongō Maru, Tenyo Maru, Yokohama Maru
- 11 Mar: HMS Naiad
- 12 Mar: Texan
- 13 Mar: Tama Maru No. 2, Tolten
- 14 Mar: U-133
- 15 Mar: U-503, HMS Vortigern
- 17 Mar: Île de Batz, San Demetrio
- 18 Mar: E.M. Clark
- 19 Mar: Papoose
- 20 Mar: HMS Heythrop
- 21 Mar: Vamar
- 23 Mar: British Prudence
- 24 Mar: HMS Southwold, U-655
- 26 Mar: HMS Jaguar, HMS Legion, HMS P39
- 27 Mar: USS Atik, U-587, Equipoise
- 28 Mar: HMS Campbeltown, Raceland
- 29 Mar: Hertford, Z26
- 30 Mar: U-585
- Unknown: Emilia, Panay
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