VAN KINSBERGEN HNLMS (F809)

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Built as a frigate under yard No 352 by KM de Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen for the Dutch Royal Navy.
02 September 1975 laid down.
16 April 1977 launched as the HNLMS VAN KINSBERGEN F809, she was one of the Kortenaer Class. Named after Jan Hendrik Van Kinsbergen.
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)
Complement 176–196.
24 April 1980 commissioned.

1995 Decommissioned, and sold to the Hellenic Navy, renamed NAVARINON (F461)
01 March 1995 commissioned in the Greek Navy.

HNLMS VAN KINSBERGEN (F809) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. VAN KINSBERGEN) was a frigate of the Kortenaer class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1980 to 1995. The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Jan Hendrik Van Kinsbergen .

Design and construction
In the early 1970s, the Royal Netherlands Navy developed a 'Standard' frigate design to replace the destroyers of the Holland- and Friesland classes. The 'Standard' design would have anti-submarine (the Kortenaer class) and anti-aircraft (the Jacob van Heemskerck-class) variants with different armaments on a common hull design. The first eight Kortenaers were ordered in 1974, with four more ordered in 1976, although two were sold to Greece while being built, and replaced by two of the anti-aircraft variant.
The Kortenaers were 130.2 metres (427 ft 2 in) long overall and 121.8 metres (400 ft) between perpendiculars, with a beam) of 14.4 metres (47 ft 3 in) and a draft of 4.4 metres (14 ft 5 in) (and 6.0 metres (19 ft 8 in) at the propellers).[1][2][3] Displacement was 3,000 long tons (3,050 t) standard and 3,785 long tons (3,846 t) full load. The ship was powered by two 25,800 shaft horsepower (19,200 kW) Rolls-Royce Olympus TM 3B and two 4,900 shaft horsepower (3,700 kW) Rolls-Royce Tyne TM 1C gas turbines in a combined gas or gas (COGOG) arrangement, driving two propeller shafts. The Olympus engines gave a speed of 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) and the Tyne cruise engines gave a speed of 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h).

VAN KINSBERGEN's main anti-aircraft armament was an 8-round NATO Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile launcher in front of the bridge. An OTO Melara 76 mm was fitted forward of the Sea Sparrow launcher, while a Goalkeeper CIWS was planned to be fitted aft, on the roof of the ship's hangar. Goalkeeper was not available when the ships were built, however, and VAN KINSBERGEN was completed with a Bofors 40 mm L/60 anti-aircraft gun in its place. Eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles could be carried in two quadruple launchers, although two or four Harpoons was a more normal peacetime load-out. A hangar and fight deck were fitted to accommodate two Westland Lynx helicopters, although only one was normally carried. Close-in anti-submarine armament was provided by four 324 mm tubes for US Mark 46 torpedoes. A Signaal LW-08 long-range air search radar was fitted, together with a ZW-06 surface-search radar, with WM-25 and STIR-180 fire control radars to direct the ship's armament. A Canadian SQS-505 hull-mounted sonar was fitted.
VAN KINSBERGEN's Bofors was replaced by the intended Goalkeeper by 1995. On transfer to Greece, the Goalkeeper was removed. Greece replaced it by an American Phalanx CIWS, while Agusta-Bell AB 212 helicopters replaced the Lynxes.
HNLMS VAN KINSBERGEN was laid down at the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde (KM de Schelde) shipyard in Vlissingen on 2 September 1975. She was launched on 16 April 1977 and commissioned into service on 24 April 1980 with the Pennant number F 809.The ship's radio call sign was "PADC".

Dutch service history
VAN KINSBERGEN and the frigates DE RUYTER, CALLENBURGH, JAN VAN BRAKEL and the replenishment ship POOLSTER departed from Den Helder on 13 January 1986 for a trip to the Far East to show the flag and promote Dutch trade. The ships returned on 19 June.
In 1995 the vessel was transferred to the Hellenic Navy.

Greek service history.
The ship was commissioned into the Hellenic Navy on 1 March 1995, with the new name NAVARINON and the pennant number F 461. Named after the “Battle of Navarinon
On 28 December[ 2014 the ship participated in a rescue mission to assist MS NORMAN ATLANTIC after it caught fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Van ... gen_(F809)

Brief history under Greek flag _ _
The construction of F/C NAVARINON at the Royal de Schelde shipyards began on September 2, 1975, and her launch took place on April 16, 1977. The ship remained in the force of the Dutch Navy under the name HMNLS VAN KINSBERGEN (F809) until 1993.
The Greek flag was raised on the ship on 1 March 1995 in Den Helder and the ship sailed to Greece on 15-05-1995. The ship was named NAVARINO in order to commemorate the action of the united British-French-Russian fleet against the Turkish-Egyptian in the naval battle of NAVARINO which took place on October 20, 1827. The consequences of this naval battle were extremely important for the development of the revolution of 1821 as and for the liberation of Greece F/G NAVARINON is the third ship of the Navy to bear this name. The first (C-63) was an "E" type destroyer, ex HMS ECHO (H23), built in UK in 1933, loaned to Hellenic Navy on 5 April 1944 at Malta and returned to British Navy 8 March 1956. The Second (D-63) was donated by USN. She was a Fletcher-class destroyer, ex-USS BROWN (DD 546) built in the USA in 1942. She was delivered on September 27, 1962, in Seattle and remained in the Hellenic Navy until her decommissioning on October 31, 1981.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080618024 ... n_f461.asp (Google translated)

About: Admiral Jan Hendrik Van Kinsbergen (May 1, 1735 – May 22, 1819):
Jan Hendrik Van Kinsbergen was born in Doesburg as the son of the non-commissioned officer Johann Henrich Van Kinsbergen, who had been born in Germany and originally had the surname "Ginsberg". When he was six, he moved with his parents in 1741 to somewhere near Elburg. Three years later he left for the Southern Netherlands as a soldier, before going to the naval academy. In 1750, he became a midshipman and in 1758 a lieutenant, in the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

His brother Jan Hermanus worked for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), but in 1770 was drawn away from this life. His ship, the LEIMUIDEN, got stuck on the rocks of the Cape Verde island Boa Vista and Van Kinsbergen got himself and a chosen few off the wreck in safety via a sloop, leaving behind the rest of the crew.

In 1771 Jan Hendrik entered the Russians' service, where in 1773 he became flotilla commander in the Black Sea. Van Kinsbergen twice defeated the Turkish fleet and won the title 'Hero of the Black Sea'. Although Catharine the Great would gladly have kept him on in the Russian navy, from 1775 he was back in the service of the Dutch.

In 1781, he played an important role in the Battle of Dogger Bank as the first officer to Johan Zoutman, for which he was honoured by stadholder William V. A year later his "seamen's handbook" was published. In 1793, he became admiral commander-in-chief and commander of the naval-artillery corps. In June 1795 he was appointed vice-admiral of Denmark, an appointment he accepted but which never actually materialised. In a short time, he returned to Amsterdam.

On 4 May 1810, king Louis Bonaparte appointed him to count of Doggerbank. In 1814, he was appointed lieutenant-admiral. The following year he became, on 8 July, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of William and put aside 700 guilder for a high-achievement prize, won by Johannes van der Palm.

Hendrik Tollens won Van Kinsbergen prize of 500 guilder for a Dutch national anthem, with "Wien Neerlandsch bloed". The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Trippenhuis had a marble bust of Van Kinsbergen made by P. J. Gabriël, and placed it below others of Christiaan Huygens, Hugo de Groot, and Peter Paul Rubens. The municipality of Elburg named a fire engine after him, and an Institute of Education set up there bore his name.

In 1816 Van Kinsbergen was promoted to “jonkheer”. He passed away three years later on his 84th birthday at Apeldoorn, where he was buried.

The Dutch Navy has named a training vessel (launched in 2000) after him, as well as a 1980s Kortenaer class frigate and an artillery-instruction ship that served from 1939 until 1952. A street has been named after him in everywhere to which he was related: Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, Elburg and the Hague. In the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, a monument to him is to be found.

https://www.seaforces.org/marint/Nether ... bergen.htm
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