Design 1047 battlecruiser
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Design 1047, also known as Project 1047, was a series of plans for a class of Dutch battlecruisers prior to the Second World War. These large capital ships were intended to counter the threat posed by
A "plan and profile" of Nevesbu's Project 1047; it is not specified if this depicts the final design.
Java moored at Den Helder in 1925. The main defense of the East Indies was entrusted to this ship and her fellow cruisers from the 1920s to the Second World War.
As the Dutch lacked the design experience necessary to produce a modern warship, they hoped that the French would release plans of the Dunkerque class (pictured) to them.
The main guns of Scharnhorst. The turrets and guns of the 1047s would have closely resembled these.
The German invasion of the Netherlands, otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands, was a military campaign, part of Case Yellow, the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries and France during
The centre of Rotterdam destroyed after being bombed by the Luftwaffe
Dutch soldiers on guard, November 1939
Dutch troops close the barrier of the Nijmegen Waal bridge during the Albania crisis.
Major Dutch defence lines