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{{Short description|Unprotected cruiser/sloop}}

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The Dutch ship '''HNLMS ''Java''''' launched in 1885 at Rotterdam was a sloop or small unprotected cruiser.<ref name=con309>Conways, p.376</ref>

The ship was named after the island of [[Java (island)|Java]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Indonesia]]). This ship was a small colonial warship, larger than most gunboats but weaker than a [[protected cruiser]]. The term [[Sloop-of-war|sloop]] in the steamship era was used by some navies including the British Navy for what were essentially large gunboats. The ''Java'' resembled the Spanish unprotected cruisers of the [[Velasco class cruiser|''Velasco'']] class, which were used for colonial duties (and the unsuccessful defense of Manila Bay in 1898).

On 27 March 1886, she collided with the British [[full-rigged ship]] ''Loch Broom'' in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] {{convert|12|nmi|km}} west of the [[Eddystone Rocks|Eddystone Rock]], [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] and was severely damaged. Four of her crew got aboard ''Loch Broom''. HNLMS ''Java'' was on a voyage from [[Rotterdam]], [[South Holland]] to [[Java]], [[Netherlands East Indies]]. She put in to [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]], United Kingdom.<ref name=Times290386a>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters At Sea |date=29 March 1886 |issue=31719 |page=7 |column=C }}</ref><ref name=Times310386>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters At Sea |date=31 March 1886 |issue=31721 |page=10 |column=D }}</ref>

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==Bibliography==

*{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860—19051860–1905|editor=Gardiner, Robert|publisher=Mayflower Books|___location=New York|year=1979|isbn=978-0-8317-0302-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2}}

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