Royal Netherlands Navy / Koninklijke Marine – Destroyer

D 819   -   HNLMS Amsterdam

 

 

HNLMS Amsterdam (D 819)

Type, Class:

 

Destroyer; Friesland - class

Builder:

 

Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij (NDSM), Amsterdam –

(Netherlands Dock & Shipbuilding, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

STATUS:

 

Laid down: March 26, 1955

Launched: August 25, 1956

Commissioned: April 10, 1957

Decommissioned: May 12, 1980

Fate: transferred to Peru (May 22, 1980); renamed BAP Diez Villar (D 77);

Homeport:

 

-

Ship’s Motto:

 

HELDHAFTIG VASTBERADEN BARMHARTIG  'Valiant, Determined, Compassionate'

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO >> Destroyer – Friesland class

LINK:

 

Official Royal Netherlands Navy site

 

ship images

 

 

 

Information & History

HNLMS Amsterdam (D 819):

 

D 819 history wanted

 

patches

 

... patches wanted ...

 

 

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