Rijkswerf (Amsterdam)

Rijkswerf
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1???
Defunct	1915
Headquarters	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Products	Warships

The Rijkswerf (Dutch: State shipyard) in Amsterdam was a Dutch shipyard that build a significant amount of warships for the Royal Netherlands Navy. In 1867 the shipyard was modernized to build armored ships. In 1915 the shipyard ceased to exist. The first armored ships the yard constructed were copies of foreign ships purchased by the Dutch navy. Later ships were built to Dutch designs. The yard built among others ironclads, protected cruisers, coastal defense ships, gunboats, monitors and unprotected cruisers.

Some ships

Ship	Type	Launched	Disp.	Notes
Cerberus	Monitor	1869	1584
Bloedhond	Monitor	1869	1683
Guinea	Ironclad	1870	2198	Sold for scrap 1897
Hyena	Monitor	1870	1594
Panter	Monitor	1870	1594
Wesp	Monitor	1871	1606
Koning der Nederlanden	Ironclad	1874	5400	Scuttled 2 March 1942
All six Atjeh-class cruisers	Unprotected cruiser	1876-86	3425
Draak	Monitor	1877	2204
Reinier Claeszen	Monitor	1891	2490
Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden	Protected cruiser	1892	4530	Scrapped in 1910
Kortenaer	Coastal defence ship	1894	3464
Holland	Protected cruiser	1896	3900
Utrecht	Protected cruiser	1898	4033
Koningin Regentes	Coastal defence ship	1900	5002
Hertog Hendrik	Coastal defence ship	1902	5002
Marten Harpertszoon Tromp	Coastal defence ship	1904	5210
Jacob van Heemskerck	Coastal defence ship	1906	4920
De Zeven Provinciën	Coastal defence ship	1909	6530
All three Brinio-class gunboats	Gunboat	1912-13	530-545

Koningin der Nederlanden
Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden
Hertog Hendrik
Marten Harpertszoon Tromp
Jacob van Heemskerck
De Zeven Provinciën
Brino

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