Lanasta - Warship
S-frigate Jan van Brakel
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder
July 01, 2025
The Standard or S-frigate (relating to the Standard NATO Frigate concept which they were designed), the Kortenaer class, displayed functional, relatively compact lines. In functional terms. the ships primary role was the same as several other designs in NATO but S-frigates did embody the most ...
Landing Platform Dock Intrepid: Warship 16
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder
October 31, 2024
One of a two-ship class assault ships commissioned in 1967. Incorporating a large docking well aft, which could accommodate up to four medium landing craft, while four 30 troop light landing craft could be loaded on davits each side of the superstructure. The large flight deck aft could operate up ...
S-class destroyer Piet Hein (ex HMS Serapis)
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder
March 12, 2024
Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1941, the destroyers of the 5th Emergency Flotilla became known as S-class and served as fleet and convoy escorts in World War II. In the last months of the war, three were transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy for service in the Far East. HMS Serapis was renamed ...
Dutch Leander Frigate Van Speijk
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder, Henk Visser
March 13, 2023
The Van Speijk class frigates were equipped with Dutch electronics/sensors. The British Leander design was chosen to enable rapid construction to replace elderly escorts for ASW duties and NATO patrol. The ships were thoroughly modernised in the late 1970s. Between 1986-1990 all six were ...
Tripartite minehunter Haarlem
1st Edition
By Bob Roetering
August 01, 2022
In the eighties, the Royal Netherlands Navy acquired 15 minehunters of the Alkmaar-class. They were deployed worldwide in conflicts (the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Libyan Sea). In all European waters they exercised and cleared historical ordnance. HNLMS Haarlem represents the rich history of...
Guided Missile Frigate Tromp
1st Edition
By Henk Visser, Jantinus Mulder
October 25, 2021
Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/-76. Their primary task was area air defense. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander Netherlands Task Group). Their large radome (which housed a 3D radar antenna) is why the ships had the nickname ‘Kojak’, after the bald-headed actor in ...
PCE 1604 Series, Frigate Panter
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder, Henk Visser
January 08, 2021
The six Frigate Panters were all built in the USA with MDAP funds. They were designed to escort slow coastal convoys in the Channel and North Sea areas and were operated as a single squadron by the Royal Netherlands Navy. They proved useful in a number of peacetime tasks, especially fishery ...
Type 47B Destroyer Drenthe
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder, Henk Visser
August 20, 2020
After World War II, the Royal Netherlands Navy ordered new ships to counter the growing threat coming from the Soviet submarines. These ships were classified as ASW destroyers (onderzeebootjagers), but close to contemporary destroyers in terms of specifications. The national industry designed and ...
Type 42 destroyer Southampton
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder
August 29, 2019
The primary role of the Type 42 destroyers was providing air defense for the fleet. With their long-range sensors, the ships could also act as radar pickets, sailing ahead of a task group. HMS Southampton was the eighth ship originally destined to be a 16-ship class – two of these ships have been ...
Destroyer HNLMS Kortenaer
1st Edition
By Rindert Zinderen-Bakker
August 02, 2019
HNLMS Kortenaer was torpedoed by the Japanese cruiser Haguro in the Battle of the Java Sea on February 27, 1942. An eyewitness recorded that ‘Kortenaer, about 700 yards bearing 80° relative, was struck on the starboard quarter by a torpedo, blew up, turned over, and sank at once leaving only a ...
Fast Combat Support Ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis
1st Edition
By Jantinus Mulder
December 29, 2016
HNLMS Zuiderkruis (1975-2012) was the second Fast Combat Support Ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy. It was primarily intended for Replenishment At Sea, fueling task groups and NATO units. As a modern design Zuiderkruis enabled a “one stop replenishment” and also carried AVCAT, fresh water and ...
Destroyer HMCS Haida
1st Edition
By Rindert Zinderen-Bakker
November 29, 2014
HMCS Haida was a destroyer of the Tribal-class serving in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943-1963. During World War II, Haida sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian warship. In the Korean War the ship did two tours of duty. Nowadays she is the only surviving Tribal-class ...