HNLMS Zeeland (D809)

Zeeland (D809)
History
Netherlands
Name	Zeeland
Namesake	Zeeland
Ordered	2 January 1948
Builder	Koninklijke Maatschappij de Schelde
Laid down	12 January 1951
Launched	27 June 1953
Commissioned	1 March 1955
Decommissioned	29 September 1979
Fate	Sold for scrap 8 November 1979
General characteristics [1]
Type	Holland-class destroyer
Displacement	2,150 long tons (2,185 t) standard 2,600 long tons (2,642 t) full load
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
Armament	4 × Bofors 120 mm guns (2 × 2) 1 × 40 mm Bofors AA gun 8 × 375 mm anti submarine mortars (2 × 4) 2 × depth charge racks

HNLMS Zeeland (D809) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Zeeland) was a destroyer of the Holland class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1955 to 1979. The destroyer was named after the Dutch province of Zeeland and was the twenty-first ship with this name. In 1978 the ship was taken out of service and later broken up and scrapped. The ship's radio call sign was "PAAU".^[2][3]