HMS Leander was completed in 1963 as the first and name ship of the Leander Class Improved Type 12 General Purpose Frigates. In 1974 the ship was converted for the Anglo-Austrian rocket propelled anti-submarine weapon; Ikara. The design was the most successful Western frigate of its time and also commemorated in less obvious ways. As being the breed for several international new designs.

USS Clark (FFG-11) was the fifth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates.The ships were designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large quantities to replace World War II-era destroyers and 1960s-era frigates.Intended to protect convoys, landing forces, supply and replenishment groups.The frigate was ordered from Bath Iron Works on 27 February 1976 as part of the FY76 program, Clark was laid dow...

HNLMS Zuiderkruis (1975-2012) was the second Fast Combat Support Ship of the

Royal Netherlands Navy. Primarily intended for Replenishment At Sea (RAS=UNREP operations) fueling Nl Task Group and NATO units. As a modern design Zuiderkruis enabled a “one stop replenishment” and carried also AVCAT, fresh water and

stores/spare parts. A helicopter deck facilitated VERTREP.

Veertig jaar lang zijn de schepen van de Dokkum- en Wildervank klasse, beter bekend als de WU’s, in dienst geweest bij de Koninklijke Marine.

In dit boek wordt de algehele levensloop van de klasse en die van de individuele eenheden uitvoerig behandeld. In de beschrijving van hun activiteiten worden regelmatig begrippen genoemd, die bij de insider nostalgische herinneringen oproepen, maar voor de minder ingevoerde lezer mogelijk vraagtekens oproepen. Deze begrippen worden uit de tekst gelich...

In 1974 besloten Frankrijk, België en Nederland een nieuw type mijnenjager te bouwen: de Alkmaar-klasse. Een vorm van Europese samenwerking die vaak als voorbeeld wordt aangehaald.

Gebouwd van polyester en voorzien van de nieuwste Franse sonar bleken de schepen in Nederlandse dienst uitstekend te voldoen.

Al in 1984 werden de splinternieuwe Haarlem en Harlingen uitgezonden voor mijnenbestrijding in de Rode Zee.

Een ommezwaai in de filosofie van zowel de politiek als de marineleiding was hiervo...

The ss ‘Australis’ was a well known ocean liner which entered

service in 1940 as the ss ‘America’ for the United States Lines.

The ship was sold to the Greek Chandris Lines in 1964 and

served until 1977 very successfully on the route Western-

Europe-Australia-New Zealand. This volume of Liners spans

the history of the great liner from when she was purchased in

1964 until her sad wrecking in January 1994.

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 Neth. Navy for service in the Far East. HMS Serapis was renamed HNLMS Piet Hein and served in Indonesian War of Independence and saw action in the Korean War. She was sold for scrap in 1962.

Gedurende de 17e eeuw voeren een aantal beroemde en indrukwekkende

Nederlandse oorlogsfregatten op de wereldzeeën. De Aemilia diende onder

Maarten Harpertsz. Tromp, De Zeven Provinciën zeilde onder Michiel Adriaensz.

de Ruyter, De Gouden Leeuw kwam in actie onder Cornelis Tromp, de

Eendracht was het vlaggenschip van Jacob van Wassenaar van Obdam en de

Brederode maakte geschiedenis onder Witte Cornelisz. de With. De carrière

van de Brederode is indrukwekkend. Brederode. Vlaggenschip van Wit...

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 of originally destined to be a 16-ship class, of which two have been exported to Argentina. The type 42 comprised eight Batch 1 vessels, four Batch 2 and four Batch 3 Stretched Type 42.