&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Onderzeebootjager_Hr.Ms._Gelderland_(D811)_(2158_035702).jpg) Gelderland in 1959
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| History | |
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| Name | Gelderland |
| Namesake | Gelderland |
| Ordered | 2 January 1948 |
| Builder | Wilton-Fijenoord |
| Laid down | 10 March 1951 |
| Launched | 19 September 1953 |
| Commissioned | 17 August 1955 |
| Decommissioned | 1973 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 1988 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | Holland-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 113.1 m (371 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 11.4 m (37 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft geared turbines, 2 boilers, 45,000 hp (33,556 kW) |
| Speed | 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) |
| Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 247 |
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HNLMS Gelderland (D811) (Dutch: Hr. Ms. Gelderland) was a destroyer of the Holland class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1955 to 1973. The destroyer was named after the Dutch province of Gelderland and was the twenty-first ship with this name. In 1973 the ship was taken out of service, after which it was given a berth in Amsterdam for the Technical Training Royal Navy (TOKM) school. During her service the ship's radio call sign was "PARY".[2][3] The ship was sold for scrapping in 1988.
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995
- ^ "Gelderland (D811)". www.navyinside.nl. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ Jordan 2016, p. 185.