Career
Laid down:	3 May 1987
Launched:	19 May 1990
Commissioned:	27 May 1993
General characteristics
Displacement:	3,300 tons
Length:	122 metres
Beam:	14.4 m
Draught:	6.2 m
Propulsion:	2 Rolls Royce (Spey 1A) 16700 hp (12.45 MW) gasturbines 2 Stork-Werkspoor 4895 hp (3.650 MW) diesel engines
Speed:	29 knots (54 km/h)
Complement:	154
Armament:	Oto Melara 76 mm anti-air/anti-surface gun Oerlikon 20 mm light cannon Sea Sparrow Missile Vertical Launch System (VLS) Harpoon Missile Goalkeeper (point defence guns) Mk. 46 Torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	Lynx helicopter

HNLMS Van Amstel (F831) is a ship of the Karel Doorman class of multi-purpose frigates (also known as "M-fregat" class) of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

In 1995 it assisted in the response after Hurricane Luis at the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. It also was deployed in a multinational force in the Oman Sea in 2001/2002 in Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2005 it assisted in the Dutch response to Hurricane Katrina.

External links

• Homepage of Hr. Ms. Van Amstel (in Dutch)

HNLMS Van Amstel (bottom right) in a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. In four descending columns, from left to right: ITS Maestrale (F 570), De Grasse (D 612); USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), Charles De Gaulle (R 91), Surcouf (F 711); USS Port Royal (CG-73), HMS Ocean (L 12), USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67), HNLMS Van Amstel (F 831); and ITS Luigi Durand de la Penne (D 560).

Van Amstel, September 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico