HNLMS Pelikaan
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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HNLMS Pelikaan (A801) was a logistic support vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
History
The ship was built around 1984 at the shipyard Vindholmen Offshore A/S in Arendal, Norway. 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. 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. 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.
Service history
Between 1986 and 1990 the ship was used for coastal shipping in Tanzania.
Royal Netherlands Navy
In 1994 Pelikaan acted as communication ship during a jungle training exercise of the Netherlands Marine Corps.
Notes
- ^ In Dutch the ship was classified as "Communicatievaartuig NA", with NA standing for Netherlands Antilles.
Citations
- ^ a b "HR.MS. Pelikaan A 801" (in Dutch). Onze Marinevloot. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Hr. Ms. Pelikaan - A801" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ^ a b c van Amstel (1991), p. 156.
- ^ a b c Hennie Harinck (10 October 1990). "Vlag en wimpel omhoog voor marineschip Pelikaan". Amigoe (in Dutch).
- ^ "Mariniers naar jungletraining". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 25 May 1994.
References
- van Amstel, W.H.E. (1991). De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine vanaf 1945 (in Dutch). Alkmaar: De Alk. ISBN 90-6013-997-6.