A-900 Mercuur

Country:  Netherlands

Class, [Type]: [AGE].

Builder: Koninklijke Maatschappij De Shelde, Flushing, Netherlands.

Launch date: 25 October 1986.

Commission date: 21 August 1987.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.400 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 64,8 x 12 x 4,3

Main machinery: 2 x Brons 61-20/27 diesels ( 1.100 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 14.

Complement: 39.

Guns: 2 x Oerlikon 20mm.

Torpedoes: 3 x 324mm. 1 x 533mm ( underwater tube ).

Mines: can lay mines.

Sonar: SQR 01, hull mounted, passive search.

Callsign: PARE ()

Comment: can launch training and research torpedoes above and below the waterline. Services, maintains and recovers torpedoes.

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