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The Royal Dutch Navy is evaluating Saab/Damen (A-26), TKMS (Upgraded 212), Navantia S-80 and a Naval Group (SSK version of Barracuda) proposal. In 2019 the S-80 option was dropped, originally with plans to place an order for the winning design in 2022 and having the first boat in service in 2028 and the first two by 2031.
Offshore patrol vessel (1 borrowed from the Navy) West Indies Guard Ship (WIGS) 1 Romania (Hull) Netherlands (Fitting out) OPV: Damen Shipyards Galați, Damen Schelde. Holland class – – 3,750 tonnes [63] Rotation od the Royal Netherlands Navy every 4 to 6 months in support of the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard. Most often Holland class ship ...
The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers) is the elite naval infantry corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy, [1] one of the four Armed Forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [2] The marines trace their origins to the establishment of the Regiment de Marine on 10 December 1665, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] by the then grand pensionary of the ...
The service branches are supplemented by various joint support organizations. In addition, local conscript forces exist on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao. These operate under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Netherlands Marine Corps. The armed forces are part of the Ministry of Defence.
Naval squadrons 320 and 321 were disbanded. [5] In 2008, the navy helicopters (Westland Lynx) and crews of naval squadrons 7 and 860 based at NAS de Kooy were transferred to the Defence Helicopter Command (DHC) as were the Dutch Air Force helicopters. All Dutch military helicopters are now under one single command which is neither navy nor air ...
Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Netherlands Navy (2 C, 14 P) Sloops of the Royal Netherlands Navy (1 C, 5 P) Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy (17 C, 12 P)
HNLMS De Ruyter (Dutch: Hr.Ms. De Ruyter) was a light cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was the seventh ship of the Dutch Navy to be named after Admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter . De Ruyter was originally designed as a 5,000 long tons (5,080 t) ship with a lighter armament due to the financial problems of the Great Depression and ...
Built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead on 3 December 1942, Venerable was launched just over a year later and commissioned on 17 January 1945.. In 1948, Venerable ' s short career in the Royal Navy came to an end when she was sold to the Netherlands and recommissioned as HNLMS Karel Doorman, replacing a smaller Nairana-class escort carrier of the same name while in Dutch service.