De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate

The De Zeven Provinciën class frigates are air-defence frigates in service with the Koninklijke Marine (Dutch Navy). This class of ships is also known as LCF (Luchtverdedigings- en commandofregat, air defence and command frigate).

Specifications

• Length: 144.24m
• Beam: 18.80m
• Draft: 5.18m
• Tonnage: 6050t (full load)
• Propulsion: combined diesel or gas system
  • 2 propeller shafts, controllable pitch propellers
  • 2 Stork Wärtsilä 16V6ST diesel engines, 8.4MW each
  • 2 Rolls Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines, 18.5MW each
  • 4 GEC Alsthom Paxman diesel-generators, 1650kW each
  • Range: 5000 nautical miles at 18kts
  • Maximum Speed: 30kts
• Sensors:
  • 1 Thales Nederlands SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar
  • 1 Thales Nederlands active phased array radar (APAR) X band search, tracking and guidance radar
  • ? Thales Nederland Scout 1 surface search radar (I band)
  • 1 Thales Sirius IRST long-range infrad surveillance and tracking system
  • 1 STN Atlas DSQS-24C hull-mounted sonar, medium frequency
• Countermeasures:
  • 1 Racal Sabre ECM suite
  • 4 Sippican Hycor SRBOC MK36 launcher
  • ? AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
• Communication: Link 16 and Link 11
• Armament:
  • 5 Mk41 vertical launch system with 8 cells each for ESSM (4 per cell) and SM-2 IIA (one per cell) surface-to-air missiles
  • 2 Goalkeeper CIWS guns
  • 2 quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launcher
  • 1 Oto Melara 127mm/54 dual-purpose gun
  • 2 Oerlikon Contraves 20mm machine guns
  • 2 twin MK32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Raytheon MK46 Mod 5 torpedoes
• Hangar for 1 Westland Lynx or NH-90 helicopter
• Endurance: 3 weeks
• Complement: 202 + 30

List of ships

Pennant number	Name	Laid down	Launched	Com- missioned
F802	De Zeven Provinciën	September 11998	April 82000	April 262002
F803	Tromp	September 1999	July 2001	March 2003
F804	De Ruyter	September 2000	July 2001	March 2004
F805	Evertsen	September 2001	July 2004	2005

All ships were built at Royal Schelde's shipyard in Vlissingen, Netherlands.

References

• De Zeven Provincien Class Air Defence and Command Frigate @ naval-technology.com
• Netherlands - De Zeven Provincien Class Destroyer @ AMI International