HNLMS Banckert () was a built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 1920s. Completed in 1930, the ship served during World War II. She was in the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese attacked in December 1941. Banckert was damaged multiple times by Japanese aircraft and ultimately had to be scuttled in March 1942 to prevent her capture. She was refloated by the Japanese, who unsuccessfully attempted to repair her. The ship was recaptured at the end of the war in 1945 and was sunk as a target in 1949.
The Admiralen-class ships were derived from the design of the destroyer , an experimental British ship designed after the First World War. The ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of . Van Galen was one of the second batch of the Admiralens which differed slightly in minor details. They displaced at standard displacement while the second-batch ships were heavier at full load at . Their crew consisted of 143 men.
The Admiralens were powered by two geared Parsons steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Yarrow boilers. The turbines were designed to produce which was intended give the ships a speed of . One of the differences from the first-batch ships was that the second-batch ships carried additional fuel oil which gave them an extra of range, for a total of at .
The main armament of the Admiralen-class ships consisted of four Mk 5 guns in single mounts, one superfiring pair fore and aft of the superstructure. The guns were designated 'A', 'B', 'X' and 'Y' from front to rear and only 'A' and 'Y' were fitted with gun shields. The second-batch ships had only a single anti-aircraft (AA) gun that was positioned between the funnels. Rather than the additional 75 mm AA gun of the first-batch ships, they had four Bofors AA guns; these were on single mounts amidships. All of the Admiralens were equipped with two rotating, triple mounts for torpedo tubes. They were able to carry a Fokker C.VII-W floatplane that had to be hoisted off the ship to take off. While the first batch of Admiralens were fitted to lay mines, the second-batch ships could be equipped with minesweeping gear.
Banckert was laid down at the Burgerhout's Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek in Rotterdam on 15 August 1928, launched on 14 November 1929, and commissioned on 14 November 1930.
On 14 February 1942, Banckerts sister, , got stuck on a reef and her crew was forced to set the ship on fire. The crew was later taken on board Banckert. Between 24 and 28 February, the ship was attacked by Japanese planes while docked at Port of Tanjung Perak and damaged to the point that she had to be scuttled on 2 March of that year. On 20 March 1944, the Japanese decided to raise the ship and the repair her at Cavite Naval Base, and on 20 April 1944 they reclassified her as Patrol Boat No. 106. However, the repairs were never finished, and after the war Banckert was reacquired and eventually expended as a target ship in the Madura Strait in September 1949.