Karel Doorman-class support ship

In Den Helder, July 2014
Class overview
Name:	Karel Doorman class
Operators:	Royal Netherlands Navy  German Navy
Preceded by:	HNLMS Zuiderkruis, HNLMS Amsterdam
Cost:	363 million euro (480 million USD)
Built:	2011–2014
Building:	0
Planned:	1
Completed:	1
History
Netherlands
Name:	Karel Doorman
Namesake:	Karel Doorman
Builder:	Galați shipyard, Romania Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, Netherlands (fitting out)
Laid down:	7 June 2011
Launched:	17 October 2012
Commissioned:	24 April 2015
General characteristics
Type:	Joint Logistic Support Ship
Displacement:	27,800 long tons (28,246 t) full load
Length:	204.7 m (671 ft 7 in)
Beam:	30.4 m (99 ft 9 in)
Draught:	7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric 4 × Rolls-Royce Bergen V12A Diesel generators 5.5 MW 1 × Rolls-Royce Bergen L6A Diesel generator 2.8 MW 2 × Converteam/GE electric motors 8.9 MW 2 × Rolls-Royce CPP propellers 2 × Wärtsilä Bow thruster, 1.25 MW 1 × Wärtsilä Stern thruster, 0.75 MW
Speed:	18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Range:	9,800 nmi (18,100 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement:	150 crew, 150 Non-enlisted persons (Helicopter-crews, medical teams)
Sensors and processing systems:	Thales Nederland Integrated Mast Thales SeaMaster 400 SMILE Air Warning radar Thales SeaWatcher 100 SeaStar Surface detection radar Thales Gatekeeper electro-optical surveillance system Thales SCOUT Mk 3 low probability of intercept shipborne surveillance radar
Armament:	Guns: 2 × Goalkeeper CIWS 2 × 30mm Marlin WS rapid fire gun 4 × 12.7mm Hitrole NT machine gun 6–8 x 7.62mm FN MAG machine gun Boats and landing craft: 2 × Landing craft vehicle personnel 2 × RHIB Landing beach for Landing craft utility
Aircraft carried:	Up to 6 x NH90 with blades folded or 2 x CH-47 Chinook with blades spread.
Aviation facilities:	Two-spot helideck and hangar for up to 6 medium helicopters

 Royal Netherlands Navy

HNLMS Karel Doorman (Dutch: Zr.Ms. Karel Doorman) is a multi-function support ship for amphibious operations of the Royal Netherlands Navy and German Navy. The ship replaced both of the navy's replenishment oilers: HNLMS Zuiderkruis (scrapped in February 2014) and HNLMS Amsterdam (sold to Peru in December 2014). At 204.7 metres (672 ft) she is the largest ship in service in the Netherlands navy.

She was built at the Damen yard in Galati, Romania, being the largest warship ever built in Romania. On 16 August 2013 the ship arrived in Vlissingen, The Netherlands where final outfitting and installation of the weapon systems took place. In September, 2013, it was announced that as part of a series of Dutch defense budget cuts, the vessel wouldn't enter military service, but this decision was reversed by the Dutch government. The vessel cost 400 million Euros.

On 4 February 2016, German minister Ursula von der Leyen, and Dutch minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert signed the LOI on the Dutch Navy ship HNLMS Karel Doorman. The German Navy will now, in coordination with their Dutch counterparts, be able to use the biggest ship in the Dutch Navy.

For maritime support the ship will have two Replenishment-At-Sea masts, the holding capacity of approx 8000 m³ of fuel, more than 1000 m³ of helicopter fuel, approx 450 m³ of potable water and approx 400 tonnes of ammunition and other supplies.