HNLMS Evertsen (F805)

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Career (Netherlands)

Laid down:	6 September 2001
Launched:	19 April 2003
Commissioned:	10 June 2005
General characteristics
Class and type:	De Zeven Provinciën class frigate
Displacement:	6,050 tonnes (full load)
Length:	144.24 m
Beam:	18.80 m
Draft:	5.18 m
Propulsion:	2 propeller shafts, controllable pitch propellers 2 Wärtsilä 16V6ST diesel engines, 8.4 MW each 2 Rolls Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines, 18.5 MW each 4 GEC Alsthom Paxman diesel-generators, 1650 kW each
Speed:	30 knots
Complement:	174 (202 incl. command staff)
Armament:	5×8 Mk41 vertical launch system with 8 cells each Standard armament: 8×4 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and 32 SM-2 IIIA surface-to-air missiles Another 8 cell MK41 VLS can be added 2 Goalkeeper CIWS guns 2 quadruple Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers 1 Oto Melara 127 mm/54 dual-purpose gun 2 Oerlikon Contraves 20 mm machine guns 2 twin MK32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Raytheon MK46 Mod 5 torpedoes

HNLMS Evertsen (F805) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Evertsen) is the fourth De Zeven Provinciën class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Before this one, seven more Dutch navy ships were named HNLMS Evertsen, see HNLMS Evertsen for a list. They all have been named after a family from Zeeland with many sea heroes.

Hr Ms Evertsen visited South Africa in late 2007 as part of a NATO task force on a friendship visit.