The two Dutch destroyers, Van Galen and Tjerk Hiddes were deployed as screen for HMS Illustrious.
On 9 September she left Kilindini to rendezvous with the assault convoy and its escort on passage to Majunga for the landings. In September, Tjerk Hiddes joined the forces allocated to support landings to complete the occupation of Madagascar ( Operation Streamline Jane), which was under the control of Vichy forces, and participated in preparatory exercises. On 20 August, Tjerk Hiddes and Nepal left the convoy, sailing to Kilindini, in Kenya. During the voyage, on 5 August the convoy was augmented by eight ships of Convoy AS4, carrying equipment for the 8th Army in Egypt. In mid-July at the Clyde, she joined the escort of military convoy WS21P from the Clyde to the Indian Ocean. Īt Scapa Flow, in June and early July, she worked-up with the Home Fleet and prepared for foreign service. War service HMS Nonpareil, Offa and Norseman at Scapa Flow, 25 June 1942Īcceptance trials started on 6 May she was commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy service on 27 May and Tjerk Hiddes was allocated to serve with the British Royal Navy's 7th Destroyer Flotilla in the Eastern Fleet. Following the war, the destroyer was sold to Indonesia and renamed RI Gadjah Mada. Much of her war service was with the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Indian Ocean and Australia. The ship was commissioned in 1942 as HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes, named after the 17th century Dutch admiral, Tjerk Hiddes de Vries. She was laid down on as a British N-class destroyer and launched on 25 June 1941 as HMS Nonpareil, but on, she was transferred to the Royal Dutch Navy. The destroyer HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes was a British built, Dutch warship of World War II.
45 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers.1 × quintuple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes.2 × twin QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III machineguns.4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon AA guns.1 × single QF 4-inch Mk V (102 mm) AA gun.3 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns.
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