HNLMS Gelderland (D811)

Gelderland in 1959
History
Netherlands
Name	Gelderland
Namesake	Gelderland
Ordered	2 January 1948
Builder	Wilton-Fijenoord
Laid down	10 March 1951
Launched	19 September 1953
Commissioned	17 August 1955
Decommissioned	1973
Fate	Sold for scrap 1988
General characteristics [1]
Type	Holland-class destroyer
Displacement	2,150 long tons (2,185 t) standard 2,600 long tons (2,642 t) full load
Length	113.1 m (371 ft 1 in)
Beam	11.4 m (37 ft 5 in)
Draught	5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft geared turbines, 2 boilers, 45,000 hp (33,556 kW)
Speed	32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement	247
Armament	4 × Bofors 120 mm guns (2 × 2) 1 × 40 mm Bofors AA gun 8 × 375 mm anti submarine mortars (2 × 4) 2 × depth charge racks

HNLMS Gelderland (D811) (Dutch: Hr. Ms. Gelderland) was a destroyer of the Holland class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1955 to 1973. The destroyer was named after the Dutch province of Gelderland and was the twenty-first ship with this name. In 1973 the ship was taken out of service, after which it was given a berth in Amsterdam for the Technical Training Royal Navy (TOKM) school. During her service the ship's radio call sign was "PARY".^[2][3] The ship was sold for scrapping in 1988.