HNLMS Pelikaan
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Class overview | |
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Builders | Vindholmen Offshore A/S, Arendal |
Operators | Royal Netherlands Navy |
Preceded by | Woerden |
Succeeded by | Pelikaan |
In service | 1984-2005 |
In commission | 1990-2005 |
History | |
Norway | |
Name | Kilindoni |
Completed | 1984 |
Out of service | May 1990 |
Identification | IMO number: 8321137 |
Fate | Sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy |
Netherlands | |
Name | Pelikaan |
Operator | Royal Netherlands Navy |
Acquired | May 1990 |
Commissioned | 9 October 1990 |
Decommissioned | 9 December 2005 |
Homeport | Parera Naval Base |
Identification | Pennant number: A801 |
Status | Laid up |
Badge | |
General characteristics [1] [2] | |
Type | Logistic support vessel |
Displacement | 505 t (497 long tons) full load |
Length | 46.23 m (151 ft 8 in) |
Beam | 10.61 m (34 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 2.48 m (8 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | 2× 1,100 hp (820 kW) Caterpillar diesel engines |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Troops | 40 |
Complement | 13 |
Armament | 1× 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine gun |
HNLMS Pelikaan (A801) was a logistic support vessel [a] of the Royal Netherlands Navy. [3]
The ship was built around 1984 at the shipyard Vindholmen Offshore A/S in Arendal, Norway. [3] While originally built for a Norwegian owner, the ship was bought in 1990 by the Royal Netherlands Navy for the purpose of serving as a logistic support vessel for the Netherlands Antilles. [4] After a two-month journey, the ship arrived in Curaçao on 1 September 1990. After her arrival the ship was made ready for its new role as a logistic support vessel at the Curaçaose Dokmaatschappij. [4] She was commissioned a month later on 9 October 1990. In 2005 Pelikaan was decommissioned and replaced a year later by a new ship with the same name. [1] [2]
Between 1986 and 1990 the ship was used for coastal shipping in Tanzania. [4]
In 1994 Pelikaan acted as communication ship during a jungle training exercise of the Netherlands Marine Corps. [5]