. . . . . "300"^^ . . . "The Flores-class gunboats were a class of two gunboats built in the mid-1920s for the Royal Netherlands Navy. and were intended to patrol the Dutch East Indies. During World War II, they served in the Royal Netherlands Navy. They were in several ways the most successful surface ships of the Dutch navy during the war. They were squat ships, both commissioned in 1926, with a relatively heavy armament for their size (three 5.9 inch (150 mm) Krupp guns, the same type and calibre as for the cruisers Java and Sumatra). Their main asset was an advanced fire control system that made them very accurate in bombarding shore targets, as a similar gunboat, Johan Maurits van Nassau, demonstrated in 1940 when she silenced a German battery from a distance of well over 10 miles."@en . . . "Flores"@en . "Flores-class gunboat"@en . . . . . . . . . "The Flores-class gunboats were a class of two gunboats built in the mid-1920s for the Royal Netherlands Navy. and were intended to patrol the Dutch East Indies. During World War II, they served in the Royal Netherlands Navy. They were in several ways the most successful surface ships of the Dutch navy during the war."@en . . .