Brinio-class gunboat

Class overview
Brinio
Name:	Brinio
Builders:	Rijkswerf, Amsterdam
Operators:	Royal Netherlands Navy
Completed:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Gunboat
Displacement:	Brinio: 545 tons 634 tons (full load) Gruno: 533 tons 581 tons (full load) Friso: 530 tons 573 tons (full load)
Length:	52.66 m (172 ft 9 in)
Beam:	8.52 m (27 ft 11 in)
Draught:	2.75 m (9 ft 0 in)
Propulsion:	2 × 750 ihp (560 kW), two shafts (Brinio and Friso) 2 × 600 ihp (450 kW), two shafts (Gruno)
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h) - 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement:	52 63 (WW II)
Armament:	4 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in)
Armour:	1.7 cm (0.67 in) deck 5.5 cm (2.2 in) belt 5 centimetres (2.0 in) Conning tower

The Brinio-class (sometimes referred to as Gruno-class) was a class of three gunboats built by the Rijkswerf in Amsterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised Gruno, Brinio and Friso.

Construction

Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned
Friso	2 November 1911	29 August 1912	12 July 1915	12 May 1940
Gruno	12 February 1912	26 May 1913	15 July 1915	January 1950
Brinio	16 October 1911	12 August 1912	8 September 1914	14 May 1940

Service history

All ships were still in service at the start of World War II. Only Gruno was able to escape to the United Kingdom. Friso was sunk by German bombers on 12 May 1940 on the IJsselmeer and Brinio was scuttled by her own crew on the IJsselmeer on 14 May 1940 after being damaged by a German aircraft.

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Description of class

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

Dutch naval ship classes of World War II

Battlecruisers

Design 1047^X

Cruisers

Destroyers

Frigates

Johan Maurits van Nassau^B^S

Gunboats and sloops

Submarines

O-series	O 9 O 12 O 16^S O 19 O 21

K-series	K V K VIII K XI K XIV

Other	Dolfijn^B^S Zeehond^B^S Zwaardvisch^B

Mine warfare vessel

Minelayers	Hydra Douwe Aukes Prins van Oranje Willem van der Zaan^S

Minesweepers	M A Jan van Amstel ABC

B: ex-British
C: Completed after the war
S: Single ship of class
X: Cancelled

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