Getting back into pictures. Tale of a unfortunate ship that sank twice.
This is the HNLMS
De Zeven Provinciën, she was a coastal defense ship for the Netherlands Royal Navy. This ship operated in the Pacific protecting nation's Dutch East Indies colonies.
She was built in 1909, regarded as a small-cruiser but armored than built for speed. Her main guns contained pair of single barrel 283 mm cannons mounted in her bow & stern turrets , while rest her guns are spread out the ship. The ship seem appear to me as more like a cruiseliner than warship if ignore the turrets!
During World War I, the ship was used to escort passenger ships.
The ship was rather bad luck, apparently the dutch navy wasn't treating her crews well, the the De Zeven Provinciën suffered a mutiny in 1933 with it's mix dutch and Indonesian crew. Six days later, Dutch Minster of Defense authorized the ship to be bombed by military aircraft, killing 23 of the mutineers. Ironically, Dutch authorities didn't noticed the glaring problem their ships had against aerial attack. After the mutiny, the ship would be renamed the
Soerabaja.
Soerabajawould be attacked by Japanese forces in 1942, only to be raised and put into service due to it sinking in shallow waters. However, the ship would again be sank as a floating gunnery battery, but by allied force a year later near the Djamoenjan Reef of the coast of Indonesia.