A-832 Zuiderkruis

Country:  Netherlands

Class, [Type]: Improved Poolster, [AOR].

Builder: Verolme Shipyards, Alblasserdam, Netherlands.

Launch date: 15 October 1974.

Commission date: 27 June 1975.

Decommission date: 15 December 2012.

Displacement ( tons ): 16.900 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 169,6 x 20,3 x 8,4

Main machinery: 2 x Stork-Werkspoor TM410 diesels ( 21.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 21.

Complement: 266 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 1 x Signaal SGE-30 Goalkeeper with a 30 mm. GE cannon. 5 x Oerlikon 20mm.

Military lift: 10.300 tonnes, including 8.000 to 9.000 tonnes of fuel oil.

Radar: Air/Surface: Racal Decca 2459, F/I bands; Navigation: 2 x Racal Decca TM 1226C, Signaal SCOUT, I band.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36, infrared flares and chaff. ESM/ECM: Ferranti AWARE-4, radar warning.

Helicopter: 1 x Westland SH-14B Lynx.

Callsign: PAZI ()