She was launched and completed in 1938 at the Tanjung Priok, Java drydock of Droogdok Maatschappij and named "Bantam" after the city of Bantam on the Indonesian island of Java. She was one of six ships in her class (', ', "Bantam", ', ', and ""), built for the "Gouvernementsmarine", the Dutch civil maritime law enforcement force for the Dutch East Indies, as coastal minesweepers. She was requisitioned by the Dutch Navy and set up as auxiliary minesweeper 4. On 2 March 1942, during the Battle of Java, she was scuttled in the harbor of Tandjong Priok.