 Kortenaer
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Kortenaer class |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Van Speijk class |
| Succeeded by | Karel Doorman class |
| Subclasses | |
| Built | 1975–1982 |
| In commission | 1978–present |
| Planned | 12 |
| Completed | 12 |
| Active | 10 |
| Laid up | 1 |
| Retired | 1 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Type | Frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 130.5 m (428 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Endurance | 4,700 nautical miles at 16 knots (8,700 km; 5,400 mi at 30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 176–196 |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 2 × Sea Lynx helicopters |
The Kortenaer class was a class of anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Like other frigate types of the 1970s and 1980s, they featured a COGOG (combined gas or gas) propulsion system with separate cruise and sprint gas turbines. Ten were built by De Schelde in Vlissingen and two by Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam between 1978 and 1982. Only ten served with the Royal Netherlands Navy: two were sold to Greece's Navy while still under construction and replaced by two Jacob van Heemskerck-class frigates which were an air defence variant of the Kortenaer class. The Greek frigates were renamed the Elli class. After service with the Dutch ended, eight of the frigates were sold to Greece in 1992 and the remaining two to the United Arab Emirates. Three of the ships have since been retired from active military service with one converted into the superyacht Yas.