HNLMS Pelikaan (A804)
HNLMS Pelikaan off the coast of Klein Bonaire | |
| Class overview | |
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| Builders | Damen Group yard, Galați, Romania |
| Operators | Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Preceded by | Pelikaan |
| Built | 2005–2006 |
| In commission | 2006–present |
| Planned | 1 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Active | 1 |
| History | |
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Pelikaan |
| Ordered | 10 January 2005 |
| Laid down | 25 August 2005 |
| Launched | 7 February 2006 |
| Commissioned | 12 June 2006 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In active service |
| Badge | |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Logistic support vessel |
| Displacement | 1,700 t (1,673 long tons) full load |
| Length | 65.4 m (214 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 13.25 m (43 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 3 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | 2× Caterpillar 3516 BTA diesel engines |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 6 RIBs |
| Troops | 62 |
| Complement | 15 |
| Armament | 2 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns |
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HNLMS Pelikaan (A804) is a logistic support vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was built and designed specially for the Caribbean Sea, and is permanently based at Curaçao. She entered service on 12 June 2006. The vessel has the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Classification 1A1 E0 NAUT-OC ICS CRANE. Pelikaan provides search and rescue and disaster and humanitarian relief to Dutch operations in the Netherlands Antilles. The vessel can also be used for amphibious warfare.