The roughly 4,000-ton Dutch ships sit near the boundary between cruisers and flotilla leaders. Their displacement and roles overlap with light cruisers, although the Royal Netherlands Navy counts them as flotilla leaders. Classification therefore depends partly on the institution doing the counting. Six 150-millimetre guns, approximately six-inch weapons, make the light-cruiser label understandable.
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When a Dutch flotilla leader looks like a light cruiser
Dutch 4,000-ton flotilla leaders show how displacement, armament, and institutional practice can place the same warship near two classification categories.