Holland was built at the
Rijkswerf in Amsterdam and launched on 4 October 1896. The ship was commissioned on 1 July 1898. She left the port of
Den Helder on 7 January for the
Dutch East Indies. In 1900 the ship together with the coastal defence ship and the protected cruiser was sent to
Shanghai to safeguard European citizens and Dutch interests in the region during the
Boxer Rebellion. A landing party from
Holland assisted in the defense of the
Shanghai French Concession where many Dutch citizens where present. She and
Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden returned in the middle of October that year to the
Dutch East Indies. In 1910 the ship together with escorted that had hit a cliff on 31 May while en route to
Surabaya. The collision caused the flooding of several compartments of the ship. Damaged as she was,
Noordbrabant could continue to steam on her own. The ship was sent in 1911 again to
Shanghai to protect European citizens at the time of the fall of
Imperial China.
Holland arrived on 4 November that year. In 1912 she was sent to represent the Dutch queen at the funeral of the Japanese
emperor Meiji in
Yokohama. The ships was decommissioned in 1920. ==Notes==