Spanish–Netherlands War of 1896

Spanish–Netherlands War of 1896

I was thinking of what if in 1896 the Royal Neterlands Navy pantserdekschip (protected cruiser) HNLMS Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden conducted a journey from Batavia to China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines to show the flag. During here Philippine visit she is blown up with all hands.

The Netherlands and Spain accuse each other afterwords on who is to blame for the sinking but this results in the Netherlands declaring war on Spain.

(1) How will the United States respond to the Netherlands declaration of war , will they try to mediate between the parties or join the Netherlands in the war against Spain.

(2) The Royal Netherlands Navy major ships in 1896 are:

Atjeh-class-unprotected cruiser

The ships of the class are 92.05 metres (302 ft 0 in) long, have a beam of 12.497 metres (41 ft 0 in), a draught of 6.706 metres (22 ft 0 in), and a displacement of 3,425 ton. The ships are equipped with reciprocating engines, which were rated at 3,300 ihp (2,500 kW) and produced a top speed of 14 knots (26 km/h). The ships are armed with six 6.7 in (17 cm) guns and eight single 4.7 in (12 cm) guns.

HNLMS Atjeh
HNLMS Tromp
HMLMS Koningin Emma der Nederlanden
HMLMS De Ruyter
HMLMS Van Speyk
HMLS Johan Willem Friso

Sumatra-class protected cruiser

HNLMS Sumatra

Evertsen-class coastal defense ship

HNLMS Evertsen
HNLMS Piet Hein
HNLMS Kortenaer

Schorpioen-class ironclad ram ship

HNLMS Schorpioen

Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden-class ironclad ram ship

HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden
 
Plus (and more importantly0 the Great Powers won't let them. There's nothing in it for them that they can't get from either country for other reasons and disruption of trade will tick the British off. However if you put this in ASB then I might play with the idea.
 
Plus (and more importantly0 the Great Powers won't let them. There's nothing in it for them that they can't get from either country for other reasons and disruption of trade will tick the British off. However if you put this in ASB then I might play with the idea.

Maybe i will put it in the ASB forum,
 
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