HNLMS Rotterdam (L800)

HNLMS Rotterdam (Dutch: Zr.Ms. Rotterdam) is a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) amphibious warfare ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship is named after the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

For other ships with the same name, see HNLMS Rotterdam.
Rotterdam
History
Netherlands
Name: Rotterdam
Namesake: Rotterdam
Operator:  Royal Netherlands Navy
Builder: Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding
Cost: ƒ265m [1]
Laid down: 23 February 1996
Launched: 22 February 1997
Commissioned: 18 April 1998
Homeport: Den Helder
Identification:
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Type: Landing platform dock
Displacement:
  • 12,750 t
  • 14,000 full load
Length: 166 metres (545 ft)
Beam: 27 metres (89 ft)
Draft: 6 metres (20 ft)
Propulsion:
  • Diesel-electric system
  • 4 × Stork Wärtsilä 12SW28 diesel generators at 14.6 MW
  • 4 × Holec electric motor (two in tandem per shaft) at 12 MW
  • 2 shafts
  • bow thruster
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Endurance: 6 weeks
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 4 x LCVP
Capacity: 90 armoured personnel carriers or 32 main battle tanks[2]
Troops: 611 marines
Crew: 128
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Thales NS100 air / surface search
  • GateKeeper Electro-optical 360° surveillance system
  • SATCOM, Link 11, JMCIS
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 1 × AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
Armament:
Aviation facilities: Hangar for 6 x AgustaWestland Lynx or 3 x NH-90 or AS-532 Cougar helicopter and stern helicopter flight deck

Design

She was the result of a joint project between the Netherlands and Spain, which resulted in the Enforcer design. The ship is equipped with a large helicopter deck for helicopter operations and a dock for large landing craft. The ship has a complete Echelon II hospital, including an operating theater and intensive care facilities. A surgical team can be stationed on board. The ship also has a desalination system enabling it to convert seawater into drinking water.

History

HNLMS Rotterdam was built at the Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding in Vlissingen. The keel laying took place on 23 February 1996 and the launching on 22 February 1997. The ship was put into service on 18 April 1998.[3]

The ship participated in an exercise called Floating Care in 1998. In December 1998 she transported Dutch troops to North Macedonia. In 1999 Rotterdam participated in the NATO operation Allied Harbour in Albania. She acted there as transport for Dutch marines and materials. Later that year she participated in the NATO exercise Bright Star off Egypt. In 2000 she would participate in the joint British-French-Dutch-American exercise called Deux Tricolores in the Caribbean. She later supported the Dutch-Canadian battalion for the UN mission UNMEE in Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 2001 she also participated in the NATO exercise Destined Glory off Spain. Rotterdam was send to Liberia for the UN mission UNMIL in 2003.[4]

In October 2012, while serving as the flagship for Operation Ocean Shield, Rotterdam sank a suspected Somali pirate ship off the east coast of Africa.[5] Rotterdam came under sustained attack from shore based weapons while rescuing the crew of the sunken ship and sustained damage to one of her small boats.[6]

In August 2013 Rotterdam departed for the west coast of Africa to participate in an exercise called African Winds.[4] The ship participated in an exercise called Emerald Move held in the Mediterranean sea in 2016.[4]

In December 2014, the Netherlands Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) announced the selection of Thale NS100 AESA radar to replace the DA08 air search radar. [7]

This radar was installed on the completely redesigned Foremast of the ship during her 2018 Major Refit Midlife Update Programme as executed by the RNLN Dockyards organisation DMI. She rejoined the fleet in Mid-2019.

  • Rotterdam
  • Rotterdam well deck with LCVPs and rigid raider boats

See also

References
  1. Jaime Karremann (2016-09-08). "Zr.Ms. Rotterdam LPD" (in Dutch). marineschepen.nl. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. "Amfibische transportschepen" (in Dutch). Koninklijke Marine. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  3. "helis.com". Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  4. Jaime Karremann (2016-09-08). "Zr.Ms. Rotterdam LPD" (in Dutch). marineschepen.nl. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  5. "Dutch Warship Destroys Pirate 'Mother Ship'". ABC News. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  6. "Counterpiracy Flagship Comes Under Fire Off Somalia's Coast". United States Department of Defense. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  7. https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/thales-ns100-radar-selected-netherlands/



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