Kortenaer-class frigate

Kortenaer (F 807)
Class overview
Name:	Kortenaer class
Operators:	Royal Netherlands Navy  Hellenic Navy (as Elli class)  United Arab Emirates Navy
Preceded by:	Van Speijk class
Succeeded by:	Karel Doorman class
Subclasses:	Elli class
Built:	1975–1982
In commission:	1978–2003
Completed:	10
General characteristics
Type:	Frigate
Displacement:	3,500 long tons (3,600 t) standard 3,800 long tons (3,900 t) full load
Length:	130 m (426 ft 6 in)
Beam:	14.4 m (47 ft 3 in)
Draft:	4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
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 @ 16 knots (8,700 km @ 30 km/h)
Complement:	176–196
Armament:	2 × OTO-Melara Compatto 76 mm/62 cal. gun (Elli and Limnos have 2) 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 (Elli and Limnos have 2)
Aircraft carried:	2 × Sea Lynx helicopters (1 in peace-time)

The Kortenaer class was a class of anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. As some of the other frigates of the 1970s and 1980s, they featured a COGOG (combined gas or gas) propulsion system with separate cruise and sprint gas turbines. Ten were built by de Schelde in Vlissingen and two by Wilton-Fijenoord in Schiedam between 1978 and 1982. Only 10 served with the Royal Netherlands Navy: two were sold to Greece while still under construction and replaced by two Jacob van Heemskerck-class frigates which are basically an anti-air warfare (AAW) variant of the Kortenaer class. The Greek frigates were renamed the Elli class.

Eight similar ships were built by Germany during the same period as the Bremen class.

By 2003 all ships were transferred to the navies of Greece and the United Arab Emirates.

In Dutch service the frigates were armed with a Goalkeeper CIWS placed on top of the helicopter hangar. In Greek service the Goalkeepers were replaced with Phalanx CIWS due to high maintenance costs.

Both ships of the United Arab Emirates, Al Emirat and Abu Dhabi are being converted into a super luxury Giga yachts known as Swift 141 (launched as Yas) and Swift 135.

Two ships, Elli and Limnos, were built for the Greek Navy in 1981, they are referred to as the Elli-class frigates by the Hellenic Navy and have different equipment and weapons from the Dutch ships.

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