I leave it to the reader to draw a conclusion about what the Dutch version of the light cruiser is. Perhaps many people associate the name “colonial cruiser” with something exotic, like a pleasure yacht armed with harpoons or, at most, a patrol ship with small-caliber artillery. In fact, the colonial cruisers of the Netherlands were not much inferior to their class counterparts from the fleets of the leading naval powers. However, in the process of work, I heard more than once that the Dutch, supposedly, had “non-combat ships” that did not show themselves in any way. I would like to object to these indisputable “authorities”, who with a languid aspiration recall the battleship Bismarck, sunk in the very first combat campaign and stuck like a scarecrow throughout the war in the Norwegian skerries of Tirpitz, that this can be agreed upon until the entire Soviet surface fleet, which did not have a single combat one, is recognized as “non-combatant.” contact at a level above enemy destroyers and performing almost exclusively the tasks of fire support for troops and transport and supply functions. By the way, I was tired of the abundance of published literature on German technology (not only naval technology), which again and again presented repeatedly chewed, digested and “discarded” information. Have mercy, gentlemen-Germanophiles, the Germans have already been “sucked” down to the buttons on their uniforms, but they weren’t the only ones who had tanks, ships and planes!