Wolf-class destroyer

Class overview

Name:	Wolf-class destroyer
Builders:	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing (6) Feijenoord, Schiedam (2)
Operators:	Royal Netherlands Navy
Succeeded by:	Admiralen class
Built:	1910-1913
In commission:	1911-1928
Completed:	8
Retired:	8
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	510 tons normal
Length:	70.5 m
Beam:	6.6m
Draught:	2.8 m
Installed power:	8500 hp
Propulsion:	2 shaft steam turbines, 4 Yarrow type boilers
Speed:	30 knots
Range:	2,360 nmi (4,370 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h), 670 nmi (1,240 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	83
Armament:	4 75 mm guns, 4 machineguns and 2 457 mm torpedo tubes

The Wolf-class destroyers were a class of eight destroyers that were built between 1910 and 1913 for the Royal Netherlands Navy to serve in the Dutch East Indies. They were the first Dutch destroyers built after a British design. The first six ships were built by De Schelde shipyards in Vlissingen, and the last two by Fijenoord in Rotterdam. Although officially named the Wolf class they are often referred to as the Roofdier class. The ships were replaced at the end of the 1920s by the Admiralen class.

Ships

Name	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Builder	Fate
Wolf	1909	17 September 1910	1911	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1924
Fret	1909	15 October 1910	1911	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1922
Bulhond	1910	20 December 1911	August 1912	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1927
Jakhals	1910	20 January 1912	July 1912	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1928
Hermelijn	1911	22 February 1913	July 1913	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1925
Lynx	1911	24 December 1912	July 1913	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1928
Vos	1912	28 June 1913	February 1914	Feijenoord, Schiedam	Stricken 1928
Panter	1912	9 September 1913	March 1914	Feijenoord, Schiedam	Stricken 1934

They are named after mammals of the order Carnivora (Roofdieren in Dutch). Their names in English, in the sequence listed, mean: wolf, ferret, bulldog, jackal, ermine, lynx, fox and panther.

References

Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921

Wolf-class destroyers

Wolf Fret Bulhond Jakhals Lynx Hermelijn Vos Panter

Preceded by: None Followed by: Admiralen class

List of destroyers of the Royal Netherlands Navy

Dutch naval ship classes 1890 – 1920 and unique ships

Dreadnoughts	1913 battleship proposal^C

Coastal defence ships	Evertsen Koningin Regentes Marten Harpertszoon Tromp^S Jacob van Heemskerck^S De Zeven Provinciën^S

Protected cruisers	Sumatra^S Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden^S Holland

Destroyers	Wolf

Gunboats, monitors and sloops	Java^S Ceram Lombok Borneo^S Nias Koetei Brinio Reinier Claeszen^S

Torpedoboats	G 13 Z 1 Z 5

Submarines	O 1^S O 2 O 6^S O 7^S M1^G O 8^B K I^S K II^S K III

B Former British HMS H6 C Cancelled G Former German SM UC-8 S Single ship of class

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