Government Navy

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Government Navy
Gouvernements Marine/Gouvernementsmarine
Government Navy paddle steamer Barito, 1894
Active	22 August 1861–1 October 1962
Country	Netherlands
Type	Navy
Size	≈58 ships in 1940[1]
Part of	Ministry of the Colonies
Headquarters	Surabaya
Nickname(s)	"Van Heutsz's Navy" (c. 1900)
Engagements	Aceh War World War II Indonesian War of Independence Operation Trikora

The Government Navy (Dutch: Gouvernements Marine or Gouvernementsmarine, GM) was a Dutch naval force in the former Dutch East Indies and Dutch New Guinea between 1861 and 1962. It succeeded the Civil Colonial Navy (Burgerlijke Koloniale Marine) of 1815 and existed alongside the Indies Military Navy (Indische Militaire Marine) until 1930, when the latter was disbanded and the Government Navy was militarized between 1939 and 1941.^[2]

After the Pacific War and the Indonesian National Revolution that followed, the GM existed until the handover of Dutch New Guinea to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority at the conclusion of the West New Guinea dispute between the Netherlands and Indonesia.^[2] Operating in a civil-administrative role alongside the Royal Netherlands Navy, the Government Navy had been primarily concerned with tasks such as policing and transport.^[3]