HNLMS Schorpioen is a Schorpioen-class monitor built in France for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1860s.

As with Buffel her huge steam engines gave her a maximum speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph).

In 1886 Schorpioen was hit in the stern quarter by a paddle steam tugboat in the harbor of Den Helder and sank in two hours.

At the beginning of World War II, she fell into German hands, was towed to Germany, and served there as a lodging - and storage ship.

In 1982, after decommissioning, she was bought by a private foundation that was established to transform her into a floating museum in Middelburg, in the southern part of the country.