On 23 August 1936 Sumatra, her sister ship Java and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein were present at the fleet day held at Surabaya. On 16 November 1935, Sumatra and the destroyers Van Galen and Witte de With visited Saigon. Among the improvements was the replacement of the original four 75 mm anti-aircraft guns by six 40 mm guns. įrom December 1933 until mid-1935, Sumatra was modernized at Surabaya. Afterwards, she was towed to Surabaya for repair until 21 September. Three days later, she was pulled lose by Soemba and a tug. While on exercises with the destroyers De Ruyter and Evertsen and five submarines Sumatra was stranded on an uncharted reef near the island of Kebatoe on. Sumatra was towed to Surabaya by Krakatau.
On 28 July the ship returned to Surabaya for more repairs after a fire in the boiler room during speed trials. On 18 June 1930, she was recommissioned after an extensive refit at Surabaya after a turbine was damaged. Afterwards, Sumatra returned to Surabaya in the Dutch East Indies on. A landing party of 140 men from the ship took up position in Shanghai's business quarter. On 23 March, Sumatra and foreign warship prepared for the evacuation of civilians after fighting had broken out between Nationalists and Communists. On 19 February 1927, Sumatra was deployed to Shanghai to protect Dutch citizens and interests because of rising tension between Nationalists and Communists. Later that year, on 21 September, Sumatra left the Netherlands for the Dutch East Indies, sailing via New York City, the Panama Canal, San Francisco, Shanghai and Nagasaki. On the ship was commissioned into the Dutch Navy. The turbines intended for the ship were destroyed by fire on at Werkspoor in Amsterdam. She was laid down on 15 July 1916 and launched on 29 December 1920 by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Sumatra was built by the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij in Amsterdam. She was scuttled off the coast of Normandy on 9 June 1944 at Ouistreham as part of a "gooseberry" pier to protect an artificial Allied Mulberry Harbour built as part of Operation Overlord. She was launched during World War I and saw action during World War II. Sumatra) was a Java-class cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
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