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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>

This article is about the Dutch steam-powered sloop ''Java'' (1885). For the pre- World War 2 light cruiser HNLMS Java see the article [[Java class cruiser]].

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The Dutch ship ''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).

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