HNLMS Isaac Sweers (1940)
HNLMS ''Isaac Sweers'' was one of four built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during World War II. Design and construction The keel was laid on 26 November 1938. The ship was launched on 16 March 1940 and the unfinished ship was evacuated to England after the Battle of the Netherlands, German invasion of the Netherlands. She was completed in Great Britain, with six British QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun, 4-inch dual purpose guns instead of planned five 120 mm guns. The ship was modern for her time, she was fast and had two manually stabilized 40 mm Bofors AA guns, each with its own Hazemeyer gun mount, Hazemeyer Fire-control system, fire control, an on-mount mechanical analog fire control computer integrated with a on-mount optical rangefinder. It was the first Dutch ship to use a Dutch radio direction finder (RDF 289), to aim its AA guns. The ship's plans were saved from the Germans and elements were incorporated into Royal Navy ship designs. Operations ''Isaac Sweers'' ...
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Isaac Sweers
Isaac Sweers (occasionally Ysaack Sweerts; 1 January 1622 – 22 August 1673) was a 17th-century Dutch vice-admiral with the Admiralty of Amsterdam who fought in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after Sweers. Bibliography

* * * 1622 births 1673 deaths Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic Dutch military personnel killed in action Dutch naval personnel of the First Anglo-Dutch War Dutch naval personnel of the Second Anglo-Dutch War Dutch naval personnel of the Third Anglo-Dutch War People from Nijmegen {{Netherlands-mil-bio-stub ...
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