The six ‘Roofdier’ class ‘frigates’ were all built in the USA with MDAP funds. They were designed to escort slow coastal convoys in Channel and North Sea areas and were... [read more]

To counter a growing threat of Soviet submarines and aircraft shortly after WWII, the Royal Netherlands Navy ordered new ships. Classified as ASW destroyer (onderzeebootjager), but so close to... [read more]

The primary role of the Type 42 destroyers was providing air defense for the fleet. With their long-range sensors, the ships could also act as radar pickets, sailing ahead of a task group. HMS... [read more]

HNLMS Kortenaer was in action in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, where she was torpedoed by the Japanese cruiser Haguro. An eyewitness, recorded that Kortenaer about 700 yards... [read more]

The s.s. 'America' was an ocean liner of 33,352 gross tonnage which entered service in 1940 for the United States Lines. She was designed by the famous naval architect William Francis... [read more]

Ordered in 1930 by the French Line in an era of furious competition, when national prestige was reflected in the liners. NORMANDIE was meant to be the first liner to exceed 1.000 feet in length,... [read more]

HNLMS Zuiderkruis (1975-2012) was the second Fast Combat Support Ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Primarily intended for Replenishment At Sea (RAS=UNREP operations) fuelling Nl Task Group and... [read more]

HMCS Haida was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943-1963.  Haida sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian warship. She is also the only... [read more]

Protected cruiser (Pantserdekschip) HNLMS Gelderland was a Holland-class cruiser of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This class, of six ships, was considered a modest, but well thought-out design. At a... [read more]

The Italian cruise ship was built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys, a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd. In 1965, she was sold to the Flotta Lauro Line, or Star Lauro, (now MSC... [read more]

Ordered in 1938 to replace the aging ships on the Dutch East Indies route, her keel was laid in 1939 at De Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd (now Nedlloyd).... [read more]

USS Clark (FFG-11) was the fifth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates. The ships were designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels... [read more]

The two ships of the Jacob van Heemskerck class of the Royal Netherlands Navy were built as specialized air defence frigates. A development of the Standard-type.  Paid off after about twenty... [read more]

HMS Leander was completed in 1963 as the first and name ship of the Leander Class Improved Type 12 General Purpose Frigates. In 1974 the ship was converted for the Anglo-Australian rocket... [read more]

Trapped in the far east by the over-run of the Netherlands and by the occupancy of the Netherlands East Indies, Tromp`s destiny lay in the Indian Ocean ans Pacific onslaughts. The ship became one... [read more]