第二次世界大战中,英国、荷兰、比利时、法国所临海域,是主要海战场之一。战时,德国与同盟国在北海、英吉利海峡布放了大量水雷。战后,清除这些残余水雷则是这几个国家的共同使命。50年代至60年代初,荷兰引进和建造了3级共37艘猎雷/扫雷舰艇。这些扫雷舰艇的清雷工作卓有成效,使得荷兰海军在此以后较长一段时间内没有 During the Second World War, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and France were among the major maritime battlefields. During wartime, Germany and its allies deployed a large number of mines in the North Sea and the English Channel. After the war, the removal of these residual mines is the common mission of these countries. From the 1950s to the early 1960s, the Netherlands introduced and built a total of 37 mine-hunting / minesweeping warships at level 3. The clearance of these minesweepers has been fruitful, leaving the Navy for a longer period of time thereafter