HNLMS Buffel information

	HNLMS Buffel in 2008
History
Netherlands
Name	Buffel
Namesake	Water buffalo
Builder	Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down	10 June 1867
Launched	10 March 1868
Completed	22 July 1868
Reclassified	As an accommodation ship, 11 June 1896
Stricken	1896
Captured	May 1940
Nazi Germany
Acquired	May 1940
Captured	8 May 1945
Netherlands
Name	Buffel
Acquired	8 May 1945
Decommissioned	1973
Stricken	1974
Homeport	Den Helder
Identification	HW-12, 1946; A-884, 1954;
Status	Museum ship, 1974
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Buffel-class monitor
Displacement	2,402 long tons (2,441 t)
Length	195 ft 10 in (59.7 m) (p/p)
Beam	40 ft (12.2 m)
Draught	16 ft 9 in (5.1 m)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW); 4 boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam engines
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	159
Armament	1 × twin Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles; 4 × single 30-pdr Smoothbore guns;
Armour	Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm); Gun turrets: 8–11 in (203–279 mm); Deck: .75–1 in (19–25 mm);

HNLMS Buffel is a 19th-century ironclad ram ship. She was one of the main attractions of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, also known as the Prince Hendrik Museum, named after its founder, Prince Henry (Hendrik) "The Navigator", who had a naval career and established the basis of the museum back in 1874. In October 2013 the ship moved to Hellevoetsluis and is again open for public.

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History
HNLMS Buffel in 2008
Netherlands
Name	Buffel
Namesake	Water buffalo
Builder	Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down	10 June 1867
Launched	10 March 1868
Completed	22 July 1868
Reclassified	As an accommodation ship, 11 June 1896
Stricken	1896
Captured	May 1940
Nazi Germany
Acquired	May 1940
Captured	8 May 1945
Netherlands
Name	Buffel
Acquired	8 May 1945
Decommissioned	1973
Stricken	1974
Homeport	Den Helder
Identification	HW-12, 1946 A-884, 1954
Status	Museum ship, 1974
General characteristics (as completed)
Class and type	Buffel-class monitor
Displacement	2,402 long tons (2,441 t)
Length	195 ft 10 in (59.7 m) (p/p)
Beam	40 ft (12.2 m)
Draught	16 ft 9 in (5.1 m)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) 4 boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 steam engines
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	159
Armament	1 × twin Armstrong 9-inch (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles 4 × single 30-pdr Smoothbore guns
Armour	Belt: 3–6 in (76–152 mm) Gun turrets: 8–11 in (203–279 mm) Deck: .75–1 in (19–25 mm)