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VAN AMSTEL destroyer escorts (1943-1944/1950-1951)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Van Amstel (ex-Burrows) F806   Dravo, Wilmington, USA 3.1943 2.10.1943 12/1943 // 6.1950 returned 12.1967
De Bitter (ex-Rinehart) F807   Federal, Newark, USA 10.1943 9.1.1944 2/1944 // 6.1950 returned 12.1967
Van Ewijck (ex-Gustafson) F808   Federal, Newark, USA 7.1943 3.10.1943 11/1943 // 10.1950 returned 12.1967
Dubois (ex-O'Neill) F809   Federal, Newark, USA 8.1943 14.11.1943 12/1943 // 10.1950 returned 12.1967
De Zeeuw (ex-Eisner) F810   Federal, Newark, USA 9.1943 12.12.1943 1/1944 // 3.1951 returned 12.1967
Van Zijll (ex-Stern) F811   Federal, Newark, USA 8.1943 31.10.1943 12/1943 // 3.1951 returned 12.1967


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1253

Displacement full, t

1602

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

3.20 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

diesel oil 320

Endurance, nm(kts)11500 (11)
Armament

F806, 807: 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20/22, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, (8 - 10) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10.11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)

F808-811: 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20/22, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, (8 - 10) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10.11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)

Electronic equipmentSPS-5, SPS-6 radars, QHB sonar
Complement

186



Standard scale images


<i>Van Amstel </i>1955
Van Amstel 1955


Project history

Former USN DET (Cannon-class) destroyer escorts, transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations

1950s, Van Ewijck, Dubois, De Zeeuw, Van Zijll: - 1 x 3 - 533 TT; + 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1

Naval service

No significant events.