HNLMS Fomalhaut

HNLMS Fomalhaut was a Government Navy patrol boat constructed at the Marine Etablissement in Surabaya. She was militarized by the Royal Netherlands Navy upon the start of the Pacific theatre of World War II.

Service history

HNLMS Fomalhaut was stationed in the Moluccas when war broke out. She took part in many patrols and escorts the most notable of which was the evacuation of women and children from Koepang to Java together with. While underway, both ships would also escort a ship of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij. While in Surabaya, the ship was damaged by a Japanese air attack resulting in the ship being scuttled by her own crew on 2 March 1942.