&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:HNLMS_Zuiderkruis_(A832)_Cartagena_Colombia.jpg) Zuiderkruis (A832)
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| History | |
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| Name | Zuiderkruis |
| Namesake | Southern Cross (Crux) |
| Owner | Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Builder | Verolme Shipyards, Alblasserdam |
| Laid down | 16 July 1973 |
| Launched | 15 October 1974 |
| Commissioned | 27 June 1975 |
| Decommissioned | 10 February 2012 |
| Out of service | 15 December 2011 |
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| Honours and awards | Operation Blue Nose, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Sharp Guard, UNMIL, Counter-drugs Operations in Caribbean. |
| Fate | Scrapped in 2014 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Replenishment oiler |
| Displacement | 16,900 tons |
| Length | 170 metres (560 ft) |
| Beam | 20 metres (66 ft) |
| Draught | 8.4 metres (28 ft) |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Complement | 170–190 |
| Armament | 1 x Goalkeeper CIWS system, up to 8 12.7 mm machine guns, up to 3 helicopters |
HNLMS Zuiderkruis (A832) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Zuiderkruis) was a replenishment oiler operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy. Zuiderkruis entered service in 1975 and was decommissioned on 10 February 2012. Her design was based on the earlier replenishment ship Poolster. The ship has been stripped for parts and left Den Helder for scrapping in Turkey on 21 February 2014.