Flag: The Netherlands
Laid down: 1 September 1998
Launched: 8 April 2000
Commissioned: 26 April 2002
General characteristics
Class and type: De Zeven Provinciën class frigate
Displacement: 6,050 tonnes (full load)
Length: 144.24 m
Beam: 18.80 m
Draft: 5.18 m
Propulsion: 2 propeller shafts, controllable pitch propellers
2 Wärtsilä 16V6ST diesel engines, 8.4 MW each
2 Rolls Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines, 18.5 MW each
4 GEC Alsthom Paxman diesel-generators, 1650 kW each
Speed: 30 knots
Complement: 174 (202 incl. command staff)