Royal Netherlands Navy / Koninklijke Marine
Kortenaer / Standard - class Guided Missile Frigate (S-Frigate)
units:				in service	builder			fate
F 807 HNLMS Kortenaer				1978	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to Greece
F 808 HNLMS Callenburgh				1979	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to Greece
F 809 HNLMS Van Kinsbergen				1980	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to Greece
F 810 HNLMS Banckert				1980	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to Greece
F 811 HNLMS Piet Heyn				1981	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to U.A.E.
F 816 HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen				1983	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to U.A.E.
F 823 HNLMS Philips van Almonde				1981	Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam			sold to Greece
F 824 HNLMS Bloys van Treslong				1982	Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam			sold to Greece
F 825 HNLMS Jan van Brakel				1983	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to Greece
F 826 HNLMS Pieter Florisz				1983	Royal Schelde, Vlissingen			sold to Greece
2 additional ships of the class were planned (F 812, F 813) but then they were directly built for the Greek Navy and launched in 1979. The 'Elli-class' Frigates of the Greek Navy have different equipment and weapons from the Dutch Navy ships.
units:	in service		builder
F 450 HS Elli	1981		Royal Schelde, Vlissingen				planned as HNLMS Pieter Florisz / F 812
F 451 HS Limnos	1982		Royal Schelde, Vlissingen				planned as HNLMS Witte de With / F 813
General Information:
The Kortenaer/Standard class (Standaardfregat / S-Fregat) was a class of frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. They were built to be a general purpose frigate; able to combat all surface, submarine and aircraft targets. Like some of the other frigates of the 1970s and 1980s, they featured a COGOG (Combined gas or gas) propulsion system. 10 were built by de Schelde in Vlissingen and 2 by Wilton Fijenoord in Rotterdam between 1978 and 1982. Only 10 served with the Royal Netherlands Navy: 2 were sold to Greece while still under construction and replaced by 2 Jacob van Heemskerck class frigates which are basically an AAW variant of the Kortenaer class. 8 similar ships were built by Germany during the same period in the Bremen class. By 2003 all ships were transferred to the navies of Greece and the United Arab Emirates. The Greek frigates were renamed the Elli class.
Technical characteristics (as built):
Length: 130,50 meters Beam: 14,60 meters Draft: 4,30 meters (6,20 meters – w/propellers) Displacement: 3785 tons (full load) Propulsion: COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines (50880 shp); 2 Rolls Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines (9900 shp); 2 shafts; 2 controllable pitch propellers; Speed: 30 knots Crew: approx. 175 - 200 Aviation/Hangar: aft Helicopter deck (20x11 meters); space for 2 Helicopters;
Armament (as built):
1 3"/62 cal. OTO-Melara DP-Gun; 24 Sea Sparrow SAM (2 x 4 in Mk.29 launcher / manual reload); 8 Harpoon RGM-84 SSM (2 x 4 in Mk.141 launcher); 1 30mm Signaal SGE-30 Goalkeeper Close in Weapon System (CIWS); 2 20mm Oerlikon AA; 2 Mk.32/Mod.9 - twin 12,75” Torpedo Tubes, firing Mk.46/Mod.5 Torpedoes;
(c) Thales Naval Netherland
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