HNLMS Pelikaan (A801)

For other ships with the same name, see HNLMS Pelikaan.

HNLMS Pelikaan (A801)

HNLMS Pelikaan
Class overview
Builders	Vindholmen Offshore A/S, Arendal
Operators	Royal Netherlands Navy
Preceded by	Woerden
Succeeded by	Pelikaan
In service	1984-2005
In commission	1990-2005
History
Norway
Name	Kilindoni
Completed	1984
Out of service	May 1990
Identification	IMO number: 8321137
Fate	Sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy
Netherlands
Name	Pelikaan
Operator	Royal Netherlands Navy
Acquired	May 1990
Commissioned	9 October 1990
Decommissioned	9 December 2005
Homeport	Parera Naval Base
Identification	Pennant number: A801
Status	Laid up
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General characteristics [1][2]
Type	Logistic support vessel
Displacement	505 t (497 long tons) full load
Length	46.23 m (151 ft 8 in)
Beam	10.61 m (34 ft 10 in)
Draught	2.48 m (8 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	2× 1,100 hp (820 kW) Caterpillar diesel engines
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Troops	40
Complement	13
Armament	1× 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine gun

HNLMS Pelikaan (A801) was a logistic support vessel^[a] of the Royal Netherlands Navy.^[3]

History

The ship was built around 1984 at the shipyard Vindholmen Offshore A/S in Arendal, Norway.^[3] While originally built for a Norwegian owner, the ship was bought in 1990 by the Royal Netherlands Navy for the purpose of serving as a logistic support vessel for the Netherlands Antilles.^[4] After a two-month journey, the ship arrived in Curaçao on 1 September 1990. After her arrival the ship was made ready for its new role as a logistic support vessel at the Curaçaose Dokmaatschappij.^[4] She was commissioned a month later on 9 October 1990. In 2005 Pelikaan was decommissioned and replaced a year later by a new ship with the same name.^[1][2]

Service history

Between 1986 and 1990 the ship was used for coastal shipping in Tanzania.^[4]

Royal Netherlands Navy

In 1994 Pelikaan acted as communication ship during a jungle training exercise of the Netherlands Marine Corps.^[5]

Notes

1. In Dutch the ship was classified as "Communicatievaartuig NA", with NA standing for Netherlands Antilles.^[3]

Citations

1. "HR.MS. Pelikaan A 801" (in Dutch). Onze Marinevloot. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
2. "Hr. Ms. Pelikaan - A801" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
3. van Amstel (1991), p. 156.
4. Hennie Harinck (10 October 1990). "Vlag en wimpel omhoog voor marineschip Pelikaan". Amigoe (in Dutch).
5. "Mariniers naar jungletraining". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 25 May 1994.

References

• van Amstel, W.H.E. (1991). De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine vanaf 1945 (in Dutch). Alkmaar: De Alk. ISBN 90-6013-997-6.