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HNLMS Guinea was an monitor built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the early 1870s. Rearmed in 1887 with more modern ordnance, she was sold for scrap in 1897. ==Description== ''Guinea'' was long overall with a beam of . The ship had a draft (ship) of . She displaced . Her crew initially consisted of 117 officers and enlisted men, but later increased to 159 crewmen.〔Dutch Ironclad Rams, p. 304〕 The ''Buffel''-class monitors had two 2-cylinder compound-expansion steam engines, each driving a single propeller shaft. Steam for the engines was provided by four boilers and the engines were rated at a total of for a designed speed of . The ships carried up to of coal, but their range and endurance are unknown.〔〔Silverstone, p. 340〕 The ''Buffel'' class was initially armed with two Armstrong rifled muzzle-loading guns mounted in a single turret and four 30-pounder smoothbore guns on the deck. In 1887 her armament was modernized. The 9-inch guns were replaced by a single Krupp breech-loading gun and the 30-pounders were superseded by a pair of , four quick-firing (QF) Hotchkiss guns and two QF 37-millimeter Hotchkiss 5-barrel revolving guns.〔〔Gardiner, p. 372〕 The ship had a complete waterline armored belt that ranged in thickness from amidships to 76 millimeters at the ends. The deck armor was thick. The armor of the turret and its supporting structure was generally thick, except around the gun ports where it increased to 280 millimeters. The conning tower was protected by of armor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HNLMS Guinea」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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