Soemba) was a Flores-class gunboat built in the mid-1920s for the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) to patrol the Dutch East Indies.

Soemba sailed for the East Indies shortly after her commissioning and remained there until the start of the Pacific War in 1941.

[2] After evacuation Soemba remained in the port with Burnie to complete demolition of facilities that included destroying ammunition, rail equipment and placing depth charges under the Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM) wharf and a cargo shed as well as pouring sulphuric acid into the working parts and destroying propellers of four trucks of torpedoes.

Soemba provided naval gunfire support during the amphibious landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio and escorted convoys until March 1944.

[8] The ship participated in a number of NATO exercises from 1949 through 1954 and often worked with her British counterpart HMS Boxer during this time.