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Zeven Provincin Class Cruiser | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Zeven Provincin-class | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Royal Netherlands Navy ensign | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 11 930 tons full load | | ength: | 185.70 m | | eam: | 17.25 m | | raught: | 5 m | | ropulsion: | Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers, 2 shafts, 82 500 shp | | peed: | 32 knots | | ange: | | | omplement: | 973 | | rmament: | 8 x 152mm guns 8 x 57mm guns
8 x 40mm AA guns | The Zeven Provincin class (also called Eendracht class) was a class of light cruisers of the Royal Netherlands Navy; the "Zeven Provincin" or "Seven Provinces" name refers to the United Provinces, as the Netherlands were called from 1581 to 1795. There were two ships in the class: HNLMS Zeven Provincin and HNLMS De Ruyter Originally designed in 1939 as a replacement for the aging Sumatra class, both Zeven Provincin (then named Eendracht) and De Ruyter (then named Zeven Provincin, as there already was a HNLMS De Ruyter in the Dutch navy at that time) were laid down in 1939, but when the German took place on May 10, 1940, both ships were still far from completed. The Kriegsmarine intended to finish the ships for use as training cruisers, but work only advanced very slowly as the dockyards' capacity was used for other purposes. However, in 1944 the ship that was to become De Ruyter was complete enough to be used as a blockship for the Nieuwe Waterweg. Both ships survived World War II and were commissioned by the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1953. De Ruyter was decommissioned in 1973, and Zeven Provincin in 1975. Both ships were sold to the Peruvian navy, and became Almirante Grau and Almirante Aguirre respectively.
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