Country: Greece

Class, [Type]: Kortenaer, [FF].
Builder: Koninklijke Maatschappij De Shelde, Flushing, Netherlands.
Launch date: 15 December 1979.
Commission date: 10 October 1981.
Displacement ( tons ): 3.050 standard, 3.630 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 130,5 x 14,6 x 6,2
Main machinery: COGOG: 2 x RR Tyne RM1C gas turbines ( 9.900 hp ), 2 x RR Olympus TM3B gas turbines ( 50.880 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 30.
Range ( miles ): 4.700 at 16 knots on Tynes.
Complement: 176 ( 17 officers ).
Guns: 2 x OTO Melara 76mm/62 Compact, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.
Missiles: SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon, in two quad launchers ( 16 missiles carried ); SAM: 24 x Raytheon Sea Sparrow.
Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm Mk 32 tubes ( two triple mountings ). 16 x Honeywell Mk 46 mod 1 or 2.
Radar: Air: Signaal LW 08, D band and 264km ( 145 mn ) range; Surface: Signaal ZW 06, I band; Fire Control: Signaal STIR.
Sonar: Canadian Westinghouse SQS 505, hull mounted. Active search and attack modes.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 launchers for infrared flares and chaff ; ESM: Elettronica Sphinx ( radar warning ); ECM: Elettronica Ramses ( jammer ).
Helicopter: 2 x AB212 ASW.
Callsign: SZCP (
)
Comment: Former Netherlands Navy F812 Pieter Florisz. This ship was sold to Greece while it was being built for the Netherlands Navy. The hangar is 2 meters longer than in her dutch sisters, in order to have space for 2 x AB212 ASW helicopters.
Similar units:
F451 Lymnos
F460 Aegeon
F462 Kountouriotis
F463 Bouboulina
F464 Kanaris
F465 Themistocles
F466 Nikiforos Fokas
F807 Kortenaer
F816 Abraham Crijnssen
F823 Philips Van Almonde
F825 Jan Van Brakel

Class, [Type]: Kortenaer, [FF].
Builder: Koninklijke Maatschappij De Shelde, Flushing, Netherlands.
Launch date: 15 December 1979.
Commission date: 10 October 1981.
Displacement ( tons ): 3.050 standard, 3.630 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 130,5 x 14,6 x 6,2
Main machinery: COGOG: 2 x RR Tyne RM1C gas turbines ( 9.900 hp ), 2 x RR Olympus TM3B gas turbines ( 50.880 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 30.
Range ( miles ): 4.700 at 16 knots on Tynes.
Complement: 176 ( 17 officers ).
Guns: 2 x OTO Melara 76mm/62 Compact, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.
Missiles: SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon, in two quad launchers ( 16 missiles carried ); SAM: 24 x Raytheon Sea Sparrow.
Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm Mk 32 tubes ( two triple mountings ). 16 x Honeywell Mk 46 mod 1 or 2.
Radar: Air: Signaal LW 08, D band and 264km ( 145 mn ) range; Surface: Signaal ZW 06, I band; Fire Control: Signaal STIR.
Sonar: Canadian Westinghouse SQS 505, hull mounted. Active search and attack modes.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 launchers for infrared flares and chaff ; ESM: Elettronica Sphinx ( radar warning ); ECM: Elettronica Ramses ( jammer ).
Helicopter: 2 x AB212 ASW.
Callsign: SZCP (
)Comment: Former Netherlands Navy F812 Pieter Florisz. This ship was sold to Greece while it was being built for the Netherlands Navy. The hangar is 2 meters longer than in her dutch sisters, in order to have space for 2 x AB212 ASW helicopters.
Similar units:
F451 Lymnos
F460 Aegeon
F462 Kountouriotis
F463 Bouboulina
F464 Kanaris
F465 Themistocles
F466 Nikiforos Fokas
F807 Kortenaer
F816 Abraham Crijnssen
F823 Philips Van Almonde
F825 Jan Van Brakel

Eugenio Castillo Pert, Athens, 23rd June 2009
