HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802)
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For other ships of the same name, see HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën.
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| Career (Netherlands) |  |
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| Laid down: | 1 September 1998 |
| Launched: | 8 April 2000 |
| Commissioned: | 26 April 2002 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | De Zeven Provinciën class frigate |
| Displacement: | 6,050 tonnes (full load) |
| Length: | 144.24 m |
| Beam: | 18.80 m |
| Draft: | 5.18 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 propeller shafts, controllable pitch propellers 2 Wärtsilä 16V6ST diesel engines, 8.4 MW each 2 Rolls Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines, 18.5 MW each 4 GEC Alsthom Paxman diesel-generators, 1650 kW each |
| Speed: | 30 knots |
| Complement: | 174 (202 incl. command staff) |
| Armament: | 5×8 Mk41 vertical launch system with 8 cells each Standard armament: 8×4 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and 32 SM-2 IIIA surface-to-air missiles Another 8 cell MK41 VLS can be added 2 Goalkeeper CIWS guns 2 quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers 1 Oto Melara 127 mm/54 dual-purpose gun 2 Oerlikon Contraves 20 mm machine guns 2 twin MK32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Raytheon MK46 Mod 5 torpedoes |
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802) is the first ship of the De Zeven Provinciën-class of air defence and command frigates in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy. There are three more ships in this class, HNLMS Tromp (F803), HNLMS De Ruyter (F804) and HNLMS Evertsen (F805). The class was designed in cooperation with Germany and Spain.
De Zeven Provinciën is the eighth ship in the Royal Netherlands Navy to carry that name. The name refers to the original seven Dutch provinces which together formed the Union of Utrecht.
She was built at the Schelde Docks in Vlissingen (eng. Flushing). Her design incorporates stealth technology, as well as advanced new radars of a Dutch design such as the SMART-L radar and APAR.
[edit] External links
- Naval-technology.com
- Dutch Ministry of Defence dispaches on the ship's activities in the Indian Ocean in 2006 (Helping a container ship in distress, helping a ship taken over by pirates, boarding a suspicious ship proven to be innocent).
