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Career (Netherlands)
Name:
Van GalenNamesake:
Johan van GalenBuilder:
KM de Schelde, VlissingenLaid down:
25 July 1963Launched:
19 June 1965Commissioned:
1 March 1967Decommissioned:
1987Identification:
- Pennant number: F803
- Code letters: PAVB
Fate:
Sold to the Indonesian Navy 11 February 1986
Career (Indonesia)
Name:
Yos SudarsoNamesake:
Yos SudarsoAcquired:
2 November 1987Commissioned:
1987Identification:
Pennant number: 353Status:
Active service
HNLMS Van Galen (F803) (Dutch language: Hr.Ms. Van Galen
) was a frigate of the Van Speijk class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1967 to 1987. The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Johan van Galen. The ship's radio call sign was "PAVB".[1] She was sold to the Indonesian Navy where the ship was renamed KRI Yos Sudarso (353).
Dutch service history[]
HNLMS Van Galen was one of six Van Speijk-class frigates and was built at the KM de Schelde in Vlissingen. The keel laying took place on 25 July 1963 and the launching on 19 June 1965. The ship was put into service on 1 March 1967.[1]
In July 1976 Van Galen, together with the frigates Tromp, Van Nes, the destroyers Zeeland and Holland, the submarine Dolfijn and the replenishment ship Poolster visited New York in commemoration of the city's 200 years anniversary.[2]
The ship received a mid-life modernization in Den Helder, starting on 15 July 1977 and lasting till November 1979.[1]
In 1987 the vessel was decommissioned and sold to the Indonesian Navy.[1]
Indonesian service history[]
On 11 February 1986, Indonesia and the Netherlands signed an agreement for transfer of two Van Speijk class with option on two more ships.[3] The ship was transferred to Indonesia on 2 November 1987 and renamed as KRI Yos Sudarso, assigned with pennant number 353.[3]
In 1992, KRI Yos Sudarso, along with Invalid Optional Parameter and KRI Teluk Banten intercepted Portuguese ship Lusitania Expresso in East Timor. Col. Widodo, deputy assistant of the Indonesian Navy's Eastern Fleet, told Radio Republik Indonesia from aboard the Indonesian warship KRI Yos Sudarso that the ferry entered Indonesian waters at 5:28 in the morning of 11 March 1992. At 6:07, Lusitania Expresso had traveled two to three nautical miles (3.7 to 5.6 km; 2.3 to 3.5 mi) into Indonesian territory and Captain Luis Dos Santos (Lusitania Expresso's captain) was ordered to leave immediately. Col. Widodo said the Portuguese ship's captain obeyed the order and turned his ship around and headed back to sea.[4]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "helis.com". https://www.helis.com/database/unit/1339-Hr-Ms-van-Galen/.
- ↑ "Poolster bevoorradingsschip". www.marineschepen.nl. https://marineschepen.nl/schepen/poolster.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Saunders 2009, p. 354
- ↑ "portuguese ship lusitania expresso fails to reach east timor". https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/1992/03/12/portuguese-ship-lusitania-expresso-fails-to-reach-east-timor&post_id=40898#.
References[]
- Saunders, Stephan, ed (2009). Jane's Fighting Ships 2009-2010. Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0-7106-2888-6.
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