HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes (F830)
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 Netherlands
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| Name: | Tjerk Hiddes |
| Namesake: | Tjerk Hiddes de Vries |
| Builder: | Koninklijke Schelde Groep, Vlissingen |
| Laid down: | 28 October 1986 |
| Launched: | 9 December 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 26 February 1993 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 February 2006 |
| Status: | sold to Chile |
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 Chile
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| Name: | Almirante Riveros |
| Owner: | Chilean Navy |
| Acquired: | 2007 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2016 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Karel Doorman-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,320 tons |
| Length: | 122.25 m (401.1 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.37 m (47.1 ft) |
| Draught: | 4.3 m (14 ft) |
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| Speed: | 29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Complement: | 174 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Lynx helicopter |
HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes was a ship of the Karel Doorman-class of multi-purpose frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Built by the shipyard Koninklijke Schelde Groep in Vlissingen. The ship is named after the Dutch Admiral Tjerk Hiddes de Vries. In 2006 she was decommissioned and sold to the Chilean Navy where the ship was renamed Almirante Riveros.
Dutch service
During her time with the Dutch navy she operated in the Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean Sea and took part in Operation Enduring Freedom around the Arabian Peninsula and Operation Active Endeavour in Mediterranean Sea. She was decommissioned on 3 February 2006 and sold to the Chilean Navy and handed over in 2007.
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