HNLMS Pelikaan (A801)

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
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

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

Citations

^ ^a ^b "HR.MS. Pelikaan A 801" (in Dutch). Onze Marinevloot. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Hr. Ms. Pelikaan - A801" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c van Amstel (1991), p. 156.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hennie Harinck (10 October 1990). "Vlag en wimpel omhoog voor marineschip Pelikaan". Amigoe (in Dutch).
^ "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.

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

[Pelikaan-A801_1-1] "HR.MS. Pelikaan A 801" (in Dutch). Onze Marinevloot. Retrieved 13 June 2023.

[Pelikaan-A801_2-2] "Hr. Ms. Pelikaan - A801" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 June 2023.

[Amstel156-4] van Amstel (1991), p. 156.

[HHAmigoe-5] Hennie Harinck (10 October 1990). "Vlag en wimpel omhoog voor marineschip Pelikaan". Amigoe (in Dutch).

[6] "Mariniers naar jungletraining". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 25 May 1994.

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