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unusual facts about Dutch Navy



Pels Rijcken

Gerhard Christiaan Coenraad (Gerrit) Pels Rijcken (10 January 1810, Princenhage – 2 May 1889, Breda) was an officer of the Dutch Navy and a politician.


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Aart Alblas

Aart Hendrik Alblas, aka Klaas de Waard (Middelharnis, 20 September 1918 – Mauthausen, 7 September 1944), was a Dutch navy officer, resistance member and Engelandvaarder.

Chittagong Commonwealth War Cemetery

There are a further 20 Foreign National burials, 1 being a seaman of the Dutch Navy and 19 Japanese soldiers, 1 of which is unidentified.

Japanese warship Kanrin Maru

The ship was built by the shipyard of Fop Smit at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands, where the virtually identical screw-steamship with schooner-rig Bali of the Dutch navy was also built in 1856.

Operation Trikora

The force was detected by a Dutch Neptune aircraft and one of the torpedo boats was sunk by an intercepting Dutch Navy vessel.