F-812 Jacob Van Heemskerck

Country:  Netherlands

Class, [Type]: Jacob Van Heemskerck, [FFG].

Builder: Koninklijke Maatschappij De Shelde, Flushing, Netherlands.

Launch date: 06 November 1983.

Commission date: 15 January 1986.

Decommission date: 02 December 2004.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.750 full load ( estimated ).

Dimensions ( metres ): 130,5 x 14,6 x 6,2

Main machinery: CODOG: 2 x RR Olympus TM3B gas turbines ( 50.880 hp ), 2 x RR Tyne RM1C gas turbines ( 9.900 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 30.

Range ( miles ): 4.700 at 16 knots on Tynes.

Complement: 197 ( 23 oficiales ).

Guns: Signaal SGE-30 Goalkeeper with a 30mm GE cannon, 2 x Oerlikon 20mm.

Missiles:  SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon, in two quad launchers; SAM: 40 x GDC Pomona Standard SM-1MR, from a Mk 13 Mod 1 launcher. 1 x octuple launcher for Raytheon Sea Sparrow Mk 29.

Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm Mk 32 ( 2 triple tubes ). Honeywell Mk 46 mod 5.

Radar: Air: Signaal LW 08, D band, 264km ( 145 mn ) range; Air/Surface: Signaal SMART, E/F bands; Surface: Signaal ZW 06, I band; Fire Control: Signaal STIR.

Sonar: Westinghouse SQS 509, hull mounted.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 . Infrared flares and chaff; ESM/ECM: Ramses, jammer and interceptor.

Callsign: PAVO ()

Comment: Ex - Pieter Florisz. Sold to Chile, should be transferred by December 2005, where it will serve as Latorre.

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