The Dutch ship HNLMS Java launched in 1885 at Rotterdam was a sloop or small unprotected cruiser.

[1] The ship was named after the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

This ship was a small colonial warship, larger than most gunboats but weaker than a protected cruiser.

The Java resembled the Spanish unprotected cruisers of the Velasco class, which were used for colonial duties (and the unsuccessful defense of Manila Bay in 1898).

On 27 March 1886, she collided with the British full-rigged ship Loch Broom in the Atlantic Ocean 12 nautical miles (22 km) west of the Eddystone Rock, Cornwall, United Kingdom and was severely damaged.