Bantam) was an ABC-class auxiliary minesweeper (HMV 4) of the Royal Netherlands Navy that was scuttled by her crew during World War II.
She was later re-floated and repaired by the Japanese and converted into auxiliary submarine chaser Cha-117 or No.
She was one of six ships in her class (Alor, Aroe, Bantam, Bogor, Ceram, and Cheribon),[3][1] built for the Gouvernementsmarine, the Dutch civil maritime law enforcement force for the Dutch East Indies, as coastal minesweepers.
On 2 March 1942, during the Battle of Java, she was scuttled in the harbor of Tandjong Priok.
[4] On 23 July 1945 she was torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Hardhead off the northeast coast of Bali at coordinates (08°10′S 115°29′E / 8.167°S 115.483°E / -8.167; 115.483).