The Coast Defense Battleship De Zeven Provincien, famous for the 1933 mutiny.
The Coast Defense Battleship De Ruyter.
While classed as BBs, in reality they are light, slow armored cruisers. Throwing them against dreadnoughts would be suicide, though De Zeven might be able to hold off an older Japanese predreadnought. With 9.4inch guns, De Ruyter, her sister Hertog Hendrik, and the near sister Jacob van Heemskerck are totally out classed. The latter three can match armored cruisers (not in speed.) They are best suited to fight a delaying action, or to be saved to be expended in coast bombardment.
The Torpedo boat Z3, one of 8 torpedo boats and 2 classes of Dutch TBs in WPO. To separate them out from DDs, I have classed them as DEs.
Touching on the Coast Defense Battleships, I think there is a good tactic to be pointed out, and it was originated during WWI. In the late part of the 1922 campaign, or all through the 1926 campaign, the US (and to an extent, Japan) will have an ample supply of dreadnoughts and battlecruisers, so what is to become of the remaining pre dreadnoughts? The predreadnoughts, especially the older ones, would be better used in coastal bombardment for invasions. They are better for this than dreadnoughts, as they are more expendable. What I mean is you really aren't going to use them as the battle line (though they may suppliment it), but if you lose a predreadnought to a coastal gun it won't be as a bad a hit in terms of VPs or naval strategy. And if a predreadnought can be considered expendable, then the coast defense ships even more.
