Koningin Regentes-class coastal defense ship

The Koningin Regentes class was a class of coastal defence ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised Koningin Regentes, De Ruyter and Hertog Hendrik.

Design
The ships of the class were 96.62 m long, had a beam of 15.19 m, a draught of 5.82 m, and had a displacement of 5,002 ton. The ships were equipped with 2 shaft reciprocating engines, which were rated at 6500 ihp and produced a top speed of 16.5 kn. In addition, the machinery had two sets of triple expansions.

When it came to naval armour all three ships were equipped with Krupp armour. The ships had belt armour of 6 in, 10 in barbette armour and 10 in turret armour. Deck armour of the Koningin Regentes class was 2 in.

The main armament of the ships were two 9.4 in single turret guns. Secondary armament included four single 15 cm guns and eight 7.5 cm single guns. Furthermore, it had three 45 cm torpedo tubes of which two were submerged and one was above water at the bow.