HNLMS Jan van Brakel (F825)
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Netherlands | |
Name: | HNLMS Jan van Brakel (F825) |
Namesake: | Jan van Brakel |
Builder: | Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde (KMS), Vlissingen[1] |
Laid down: | 16 November 1979[1] |
Launched: | 16 May 1981[1] |
Commissioned: | 14 April 1983[1] |
Decommissioned: | 12 October 2001[1] |
Fate: | Sold to Greece, 29 November 2002[2] |
Greece | |
Name: | HS Kanaris (F464) |
Namesake: | Constantine Kanaris |
Acquired: | 29 November 2002 |
Status: | in active service, as of 2011[update] |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Kortenaer-class frigate |
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Length: | 130 m (426 ft 6 in) |
Beam: | 14.4 m (47 ft 3 in) |
Draft: | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) |
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Endurance: | 4,700 nautical miles @ 16 knots (8,700 km @ 30 km/h) |
Complement: | 176–196 |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × Sea Lynx helicopters (1 in peace-time) |
HNLMS Jan van Brakel (F825) was a Kortenaer-class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy. It was named after Jan van Brakel, a Dutch naval commander from the seventeenth century.[2]
It was launched on 16 May 1981, commissioned by the Dutch Navy on 14 April 1983, and was transferred to the Hellenic Navy on 29 November 2002 as Kanaris (F464) (Greek: Κανάρης).[2]
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