HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst (1937)

HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst was a Jan van Amstel-class minesweeper built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1930s. The German invasion of the Netherlands resulted in the ship being scuttled at Enkhuizen on 14 May 1940, but was raised by the Germans and entered service as the minesweeper M 553 with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The vessel was sunk by a mine off East Prussia on 21 April 1944. M 552 was raised on 20 July 1944 and towed to Stettin. There, the ship was bombed and burned out 20 August 1944. The wreck was captured by the Soviets. One source says she was returned to the Netherlands post war.

Description
The Jan van Amstel-class ships were 55.8 m long, with a beam of 7.8 m and a draught of 2.2 m at deep load. They displaced was 450 LT at normal load, which increased to 585 LT at deep load. A pair of Yarrow boilers fed steam to two triple-expansion steam engines that each drove a single propeller shaft. The engines were rated at 1690 ihp which gave the ships a speed of 15 kn. They carried up to 110 LT of fuel oil and had a complement of 45 officers and ratings.