Regulus and Ram were a 2 ship class of minelayers under construction in the Dutch east indies when the Japanese took over the colony. They were renamed Nankai and Nanshin, Nankai was completed as a powerful gunboat, but Nanshin was less heavily armed and not completed. Small note about the link...
At the same time as the Design 1047 battlecruiser project was being worked on, the Dutch need for dedicated naval tankers, especially to support operations around the Netherlands East Indies could no longer be ignored, so what was intended to be a eventual two-ship class was (belatedly)...
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