They had uneventful careers and were stricken from the Navy List in the first decade of the 20th century.

The dimensions here are for Schorpioen, with her British-built sister, Stier, being marginally smaller.

Schorpioen had a pair of two-cylinder compound-expansion steam engines powered by four boilers.

Their engines produced 2,225–2,250 indicated horsepower (1,659–1,678 kW) and gave the ships a speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph).

[1] They carried a maximum of 200 long tons (203 t) of coal that gave them a range of 1,030 nautical miles (1,910 km; 1,190 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).

Schorpioen remained in service until 1982 when she was purchased by a private foundation for restoration as a museum ship in Rotterdam.