Koninklijke Marine: HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck, Witte de With 1986-2005. To Chile, active until 2019. HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck (F 812) of NY city. The Jacob van Heemskerck-class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy were designed as an Air Defence version of the Kortenaer class, with their helicopter replaced by a Standard medium range SAM … Read more
Koninklijke Marine Frigates: Frigate 8 Built . HNLMS Karel Doorman, Willem van der Zaan, Tjerk Hiddes, Van Amstel, Abraham van der Hulst, Van Nes, Van Galen, Van Speijk (F827 to F834) The Karel Doorman-class were a new type of eight multi-purpose vessels of the Royal Netherlands Navy, they were a replacement for the 1950s Roofdier-class … Read more
Koninklijke Marine Frigates: Frigate 75 Programme, Built 1975-83. HNLMS Kortenaer, Egbert Bartholomeusz, Callenburgh, Van Kinsbergen, Banckert, Piet Hein, Peter Florisz, Witte de With, Abraham Crijnssen, Philips van Almonde, Bloys van Treslong, Jan van Brakel, Pieter Florisz (F807 to F826) The Euro “standard frigates”. The Kortenaer class were anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy capitalizing … Read more
Koninklijke Marine Frigates: Frigate 66 Programme, Built 1971-76. HNLMS Tromp (F801), De Ruyter (F806), in service 1976-2001 The Tromp class frigates built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1970s were originally a replacement for the two De Zeven Provinciën-class cruisers and intended also to act as squadron flagships. Sharing many aspects with the British Type … Read more
Koninklijke Marine Aircraft Carrier 1948-1968 Dutch National Day ! HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81) was the only cold war Dutch aircraft carrier. She was a Colossus-class ship, part of the 1942 light fleet aircraft carrier programme as the former HMS Venerable. She was sold in 1948 to the Royal Netherlands Navy. Her partial modernization was later … Read more
Koninklijke Marine Destroyers: Onderzeebootjager Typ 47B (later Typ 49), Built 1951-56. HNLMS Friesland, Groningen, Limburg, Overijssel, Drenthe, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam (D812-819) service 1956-82 BAP Gálvez, Capitan Quiñones, Colonel Bolognesi, Guise, Castilla, Diez Canseco, Villar 1980-91 The Typ 47B Onderzeebootjager of the Friesland class as they were known inside NATO were a second generation postwar Dutch … Read more
Koninklijke Marine Destroyers: Onderzeebootjager Typ 47A, Built 1950-55. HNLMS Holland, Zeeland, Noord-Brabant, Gelderland (D808-811) service 1954-79 Holland class destroyers: The postwar years saw a renaissance of the crippled, but proud Netherlands Navy, fighting on all fronts during WW2 against the axis. The two prewar cruisers of the De Ryter class were completed in 1953, an … Read more
The Netherlands – 1939-2020 HNLMS De Ruyter, De Zeven Provinciën The world’s last gun cruisers. Started before the war in 1939 in a very different context, to join the KNIL defending the Netherlands East Indies against the Japanese, they were under construction when the country was invaded by Germany in 1940. De Ruyter and De … Read more
