Royal Netherlands Navy / Koninklijke Marine – Frigate

F 807   -   HNLMS De Bitter

 

 

HNLMS De Bitter (F 807)

Type, Class:

 

Destroyer Escort / Frigate; Van Amstel (ex US Cannon) -class

Builder:

 

Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock, Port Newark, New Jersey, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: October 21, 1943

Launched: January 9, 1944

Commissioned: February 12, 1944 (as USS Rinehart / DE 196)

Decommissioned: July 17, 1946

transferred to the Netherlands – June 1, 1950

renamed HNLMS De Bitter / F 807

Decommissioned: December 15, 1967 (as HNLMS De Bitter / F 807)

Fate: sold for scrap – February 1968.

Homeport:

 

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Ship’s Motto:

 

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Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO >> Destroyer Escort / Frigate – Van Amstel (ex US Cannon) class

LINK:

 

Official Royal Netherlands Navy site

 

ship images

 

 

 

Pieter De Bitter

 

 

 

Information & History

Pieter De Bitter (?? – June 15, 1966):

 

Pieter De Bitter was a Rear-Admiral of the Royal Netherlands Navy who fought in the Anglo-Dutch wars. He died on June 15, 1666.

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HNLMS De Bitter (F 807):

 

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patches

 

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