Career
Laid down:	3 May 1987
Launched:	19 May 1990
Commissioned:	27 May 1993
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Displacement:	3,300 tons
Length:	122 metres
Beam:	14.4 m
Draught:	6.2 m
Propulsion:	2 Rolls Royce (Spey 1A) 16700 hp (12.45 MW) gasturbines 2 Stork-Werkspoor 4895 hp (3.650 MW) diesel engines
Speed:	29 knots (54 km/h)
Complement:	154
Armament:	Oto Melara 76 mm anti-air/anti-surface gun Oerlikon 20 mm light cannon 16cell Sea Sparrow Missile Vertical Launch System (VLS) Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles Goalkeeper (point defence guns) Mk. 46 Torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	Lynx helicopter

HNLMS Van Amstel (F831) is a ship of the Karel Doorman class of multi-purpose frigates (also known as "M-fregat" class) of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Built by the shipyard Koninklijke Schelde Groep in Vlissingen. The ship is named after the dutch Commandeur Jan van Amstel.

In 1995 it assisted in the response after Hurricane Luis at the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. It also was deployed in a multinational force in the Oman Sea in 2001/2002 in Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2005 it assisted in the Dutch response to Hurricane Katrina.

[edit] External links

• Homepage of Hr. Ms. Van Amstel (in Dutch)

HNLMS Van Amstel (bottom right) in a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. In four descending columns, from left to right: ITS Maestrale (F 570), De Grasse (D 612); USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Charles De Gaulle (R 91), Surcouf (F 711); USS Port Royal (CG-73), HMS Ocean (L 12), USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), HNLMS Van Amstel (F 831); and ITS Luigi Durand de la Penne (D 560).

Van Amstel, September 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico