HNLMS BLOYS VAN TRESLONG F824 frigate

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Built as a frigate one of the Kortenaer Class for the Dutch Royal Navy.
She was ordered by Wilton Fijenoord in Schiedam but subcontracted to de Schelde in Vlissingen (Flushing) under yard no 359. (many sources give that she was built by Wilton but this is not correct)
05 May 1978 laid down.
15 November 1980 launched as the BLOYS VAN TRESLONG named after Willem Bloys van Treslong.
Displacement: 3,600-ton standard, 3,900-ton full load. Dim. 130 x 14.4 x 4.4m (draught)
Propulsion: Combined gas or gas (COGOG) system:
2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines, 4,900 shp (3,700 kW) each.
2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 25,700 shp (19,200 kW) each (boost)
2 Shafts, Speed 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) cruise. 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) maximum.
Endurance: 4,700 nautical miles at 16 knots (8,700 km at 30 km/h).
Armament:
2 × OTO-Melara Compatto 76 mm/62 cal. Gun.
2 × twin Mk46 torpedo tubes.
2 × quad RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers.
1 × 8-cell Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missile launchers
1 × Goalkeeper in Dutch service.
1 × Phalanx in Greek service.
Aircraft carried: 2 × Sea Lynx helicopters (1 in peacetime).
Crew 176-196.
25 November 1982 commissioned.

Decommissioned 2003
Fate: Sold to the Hellenic Navy
Greece Name NIKIFOROS FOKAS (F466)
Acquired: 2003
19 November 2004 commissioned in Den Helder, Netherland.

2023 In active service

HNLMS BLOYS VAN TRESLONG(F824) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Bloys van Treslong) was a frigate of the Kortenaer class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1982 to 2003. The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Willem Bloys van Treslong. The ship's radio call sign was "PADG”.
Dutch service history
HNLMS BLOYS VAN TRESLONG was built at Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam.(must be De Schelde in Vlissingen.) The keel laying took place on 5 May 1978 and the launching on 15 November 1980. The ship was put into service on 25 November 1982. In 1993, the ship served as station ship in the West Indies. In this period, she was sent to Haiti in support of the United Nations peace mission Support Democracy.
In 1996, she made a trip to Norway with the frigates JACOB VAN HEEMSKERCK, WILLEM VAN DER ZAAN, TROMP and the replenishment ship AMSTERDAM.
In 2003, the vessel was decommissioned and sold to the Hellenic Navy.

Greek service history
The ship was transferred in 2003 to the Hellenic Navy where she was renamed NIKIFOROS FOKAS using the radio call sign "SZCH”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Blo ... ong_(F824)

About, Admiral Willem BLOYS VAN TRESLONG(~1530 – 1594):
Willem Bloys (or Blois) van Treslong (born in Den Briel / Brielle in 1529 or 1530) was just like Willem van der Marck active against the Spaniards. From several sources, he appears to have a more respectable background than Van der Marck. Treslong was active in the Royal Netherlands Navy since 1558. In 1568 he served under Lodewijk van Nassau at the battles near Heiligerlee and Jemgum. Early on in 1572 he served with the "Watergeuzen".
Earlier on, the geuzen were forced to give way to the governor-general Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo (1507-1582) and were then leading the lives of privateers.
Treslong commanded a ship that became stuck in ice when it was on it's way from Vlie to the island of Texel. His ship was then attacked by 4 companies of soldiers who had been warned by the citizens of the island of Wieringen. He managed to defeat them but lost his sword as well as seventeen crewmembers in the battle.
Together with Willem van der Marck he led the Watergeuzen when they conquered Den Briel on April 1st, 1572. This attack was not their original intention. The watergeuzen were on their way to the Isle of Texel to attack the Spanish fleet they believed to be stationed there. After this, they would try to establish one or more strongholds in one or more of the ports in the North-Western area of the Netherlands.
En route, they captured several Spanish merchant ships. When they passed the Flemish sands the wind turned and they decided to change their course to Den Briel. At first, they merely intended to sack Den Briel, but Van Oranje ordered it to be held against the Spaniards.
In 1573 Treslong became the admiral of Holland and in 1576 also Admiral of Zeeland. In 1585 he got into an argument with members of the Admiralty of Zeeland about the way in which the beleaguered Antwerpen was to be relieved. As a result, he was imprisoned at the city of Middelburg and relieved of his office. Sometime later in 1591, he was released, because of the support of the Count of Leicester.
https://www.seaforces.org/marint/Nether ... eslong.htm

Some more info on her Greek history:
She sailed to Greece on March 28, 2005. In recognition of the heroic figure of the Byzantine general and Emperor Nikephoros Phokas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas but also wanting to underline the unbroken historical continuity of Hellenism, the Navy is for the first time naming a warship after a Byzantine hero.
The ship's coat of arms depicts the Byzantine Emperor Nikiforos Phokas from where it got its name. The ship took its name from Nikiforos II Phokas, who was one of the most important naval generals and emperors of Byzantium (963-969) and a big-headed visionary of the global radiation of the Byzantine Empire. With a dynamic and quirky nature, he devoted his entire life to the field of battle and spiritual exercise.

https://www.in.gr/2020/01/31/life/stori ... outs-reis/ (Google translated)
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