South Africa wanted her own navy according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1932 no. 4

An item referred to the R.U.S.L. Journal dated May 1932 reporting that South Africa was interested in founding her own navy. At that moment she possessed 3 minesweepers mainly used for survey duties, a task in the past executed by the Royal British Navy. If however a South African navy wanted to replace the Royal British Navy completely in the South African waters she had to grow in a far more faster tempo then now.