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Warship 10
Type 47b destyroyer Drenthe
2020 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder e.a. || Lanasta || met inkijkexemplaar
To counter a growing threat of Soviet submarines and aircraft shortly after WWII, the Royal Netherlands Navy ordered new ships. Classified as ASW destroyer (onderzeebootjager), but so close to contemporary destroyers in terms of specifications. Still suffering from the havoc of war the national industry managed to design and construct these ships in two classes.
Drenthe was of the more capable Type 47B series.
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Landing Platform Dock Intrepid
Warship 16
2024 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder || Lanasta
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 to six helicopters. Both ships operated with the Falkland Task Force in 1982.
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Frigate HMS Leander / 2 / druk 1
2012 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder || Lanasta
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.
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Warship 5 Cruiser Gelderland
2015 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder || Lanasta
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Warship 07: Fast Combat Support Ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis 7
2017 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder e.a. || Lanasta
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.
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S-class destroyer Piet Hein (ex HMS Serapis)
2024 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder e.a. || Lanasta
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.
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Type 42 destroyer HMS Southampton
2020 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder e.a. || Lanasta || met inkijkexemplaar
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.
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Warship 11
PCE 1600 series, frigate Panter
2020 || Paperback || Jantinus Mulder e.a. || Lanasta || met inkijkexemplaar
The six ‘Roofdier’ class ‘frigates’ were all built in the USA with MDAP funds. They were designed to escort slow coastal convoys in Channel and North Sea areas and were operated as a single squadron by the Royal Netherlands Navy. They proved useful for a number of peacetime tasks, especially fishery protection, and some were retained in this role in the North Sea until die mid-1980s.