Wolf-class destroyer

HNLMS Wolf in Vlissingen c. 1912

The Wolf- or Fret-class destroyers, also known as the Roofdier class, lit. "predator", were a class of eight destroyers that were built between 1910 and 1913 for the Royal Netherlands Navy to serve in the Dutch East Indies. They were the first Dutch destroyers built after a British design. The first six ships were built by Koninklijke Schelde Groep De Schelde shipyards in Vlissingen, and the last two by Fijenoord in Rotterdam. The ships were replaced at the end of the 1920s by the .

Design

The ships displaced and measured in length overall, Template:Cvt in breadth, with a Template:Cvt draught. They were powered by four Yarrow boilers installed creating steam that produced . They had two Krupp-Germania steam turbines that drove two shafts. The first four ships, , , , and , each carried Template:Cvt of coal, the last four, , , , and , carried an additional Template:Cvt of fuel oil in addition to the 120 t of coal. This gave the last four ships an additional of endurance.

The ships were armed with four /52-calibre guns, four Template:Cvt/80-calibre machine guns, and two Template:Cvt torpedo tubes.

Ships

Name	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Builder	Fate
	1909	17 September 1910	1911	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1924
	1909	15 October 1910	1911	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1922
	1910	20 December 1911	August 1912	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1927
	1910	20 January 1912	July 1912	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1928
	1911	22 February 1913	July 1913	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1925
	1911	24 December 1912	July 1913	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde, Flushing	Stricken 1928
	1912	28 June 1913	February 1914	Feijenoord, Schiedam	Stricken 1928
	1912	9 September 1913	March 1914	Feijenoord, Schiedam	Stricken 1934

They are named after mammals of the order Carnivora (Roofdieren is a synonym for carnivore in Dutch). Their names in English, in the sequence listed, mean: wolf, ferret, bulldog, jackal, ermine, lynx, fox and panther.