Hello everyone,
Today I bring you two more captured ships that went on to become part of the IJN after the surrender of the Dutch East Indies. These ships are the Hr.Ms.
Valk and
Banckert, an "opiumjager" and standard destroyer. The
Valk was originally designed to be an anti-smuggling ship stationed in the East Indies, and was assigned there in 1930. After the war began in 1939, she was transferred from the civilian government to military command and given the designation Hr.Ms. after being converted to a seaplane tender. In 1942, she was scuttled to due damage from airstrikes and was left abandoned - similar to both USS
Stewart and the
Banckert. She then was refloated in 1943, and completed repairs in 1944 to become Patrol Boat No. 104 and served the rest of the war primarily as an escort for merchant ships.
Banckert was only raised in 1944, and began repairs the same year. It has been reported that the repairs were never finished, although they were written as such on paper. She was then surrendered in 1945, and eventually was sank by the Dutch as a target ship in 1949.
I have drawn
Valk in her 1944 configuration, and
Banckert in her 1945 configuration (as no pictures of either exist in Japanese service, I went with the best that I could find for both).
![[ img ]](https://i.imgur.com/QTPzAC9.png)