page_title: HMS Scourge (G01)
section_title: Postwar
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Scourge (G01) / Construction and career / Postwar
caption_attribution_description: English: The Dutch destroyer Hr.Ms. Evertsen (D802) at Yokosuka, Japan, on 11 January 1951, after joining the United Nations Blockading and Escort Force for Korean War duty.
context_page_description: HMS Scourge was an S-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The ship was sold to the Netherlands postwar, where it saw action in the Korean War and the West New Guinea dispute.
context_section_description: She was sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy on 1 February 1946 and was renamed HNLMS Evertsen (D802). During the Korean War she was part of the diverse Task Force 96 in the US Seventh Fleet, and saw service during the Battle of Pusan Perimeter. She was converted to a fast frigate in 1957.
  She was deployed during the period of tension between the Netherlands and Indonesia over the fate of New Guinea, and saw action during the Battle of Arafura Sea, sinking the Indonesian torpedo boat Matjan Tutul.
  She was scrapped at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht from July 1963.
caption: Evertsen (D802) at Yokosuka 1951.
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