The Admiralen class were eight destroyers built for the Royal Netherlands Navy between 1926 and 1931.

These ships were built in the Netherlands with assistance from the British company Yarrow (at that time the leading builder of destroyers in the world).

The Dutch ships were based on the British destroyer HMS Ambuscade.

The Royal Netherlands Navy took the Yarrow & Co design and made some minor changes.

After 12 years of ignoring this issue it was finally solved in 1939 by stiffening the guns, however when Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 this issue wasn't solved for the surface ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy.