Only Anna Paulowna was completed, parts of Van Galen were used to build the steam corvette Zilveren Kruis.

In May 1855 the Dutch Secretary for the navy Smit van den Broecke, presented an overall plan for the fleet at home and in the East Indies.

The heaviest ships of the new fleet would be 3 screw steam frigates of 400 hp, 50 guns and 500 men, to be stationed in the Netherlands.

The standard fighting warship for the East Indies would be a screw corvette of 250 hp, 12 30-pounders and 125 men, of which 12 would be built.

[2] Of his successors, Johannes Servaas Lotsy held office from August 1856 till March 1861.

Huyssen van Kattendijke thought it impossible to execute Plan 1855 with the budgets that were normally allowed for the navy.

[3] For home defense, Huyssen van Kattendijke thought that the ideas behind the Plan 1855 were outdated, because of the appearance of armored ships like the French ironclad Gloire.

[4] Instead, he wanted to rely on floating batteries and steam gunboats mounting a single piece of the heaviest ordnance.

[3] For the Dutch East Indies, Huyssen van Kattendijke thought that the steam frigates with auxiliary power and 500 men were too costly to operate.

He envisioned a much smaller ship called kuilkorvet, which translates as 'covered gun deck corvette' (kuil means gundeck).

[3] The name kuilkorvet was probably meant to be very exact, i.e. expressing that the only difference from the previous corvettes would be its covered gun deck.

Meanwhile, the procurement of steam engines and new artillery (rifled guns and very heavy smooth bore muzzle loaders) would consume a big part of the available funds.

The remarkable battle caused the Dutch government to shift its attention to armored ships.

It dawned on the Dutch that wooden (i.e. unarmored) ships would remain essential for service in the colonies for years to come.

In September 1863 he still wanted to postpone the construction of new warships, while waiting whether armored or unarmored ships would sail the oceans.

Java resembled Huyssen van Kattendijke's earlier kuilkorvet, but what is probably more significant is his opinion about the necessity of higher speed.

The length would be limited to that allowed by the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, but otherwise it would be able to leave the shipyard over the Zuiderzee if empty.

[11] After the first ship of the Anna Paulowna class had been laid down in July 1864, the Minister of the Navy explained some more in September.

Adolf van Nassau had a beam of 15.72 m. Their draft was also deeper, 6.80 m versus 6.20 m for the Anna Paulowna class.

It was clear that with its length, the Anna Paulowna class could not get from Amsterdam to sea via the Noordhollandsch Kanaal.

He obtained a dramatic increase of the navy budget in order to buy an armored fleet.

[20] Therefore, Van Galen (ex-Anna Paulowna) had obviously remained on the slipway after construction had been halted almost a year earlier.

In February 1867 the secretary for the navy had mentioned that Anna Paulowna could perhaps be made into a somewhat altered Djambi, especially because the wood that had been used would otherwise go to waste.