History
Netherlands
Name	Evertsen
Namesake	Evertsen family
Builder	Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding
Laid down	6 September 2001
Launched	19 April 2003
Commissioned	10 June 2005
Identification	MMSI number: 244942000 Callsign: PAEU
Status	In service
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General characteristics
Class and type	De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate
Displacement	6,050 tonnes (full load)
Length	144.24 m (473.2 ft)
Beam	18.80 m (61.7 ft)
Draught	5.18 m (17.0 ft)
Propulsion	Combined diesel or gas 2 × Wärtsilä 16 V26 marine diesel engines, 5.1 MW (6,800 hp) each 2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Spey SM 1C gas turbines, 19.5 MW (26,100 hp) each 2 × propeller shafts, 5-bladed controllable pitch propellers
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement	174 (202 incl. command staff)
Sensors and processing systems	Thales Nederland SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar Thales Nederland APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar (I band) DECCA NAV navigation radar Thales Nederland Scout (Low-probability-of-intercept) surface search/navigation radar Thales Nederland Sirius IRST long-range infrared surveillance and tracking system Thales Nederland Mirador optical surveillance and tracking system Atlas Elektronik DSQS-24C hull-mounted sonar MK XII IFF system
Armament	Guns: 1 × Oto Melara 127 mm/54 dual-purpose gun 2–4 × Browning M2 12.7 mm machine guns 4–6 × FN MAG 7.62 mm machine guns 1–2 × Goalkeeper CIWS Missiles: 40-cell Mk 41 vertical launching system 32 × SM-2 IIIA surface-to-air missiles 32 × Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles (quad-packed) 8 × Harpoon anti-ship missiles 2 × twin Mk 32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Mk 46 Mod 5 torpedoes (Evertsen has two Goalkeepers)
Aircraft carried	1 x NH-90 helicopter

HNLMS Evertsen (F805) (Dutch: Zr.Ms. Evertsen) is the fourth De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Service history

Evertsen visited South Africa in late 2007 as part of a NATO task force on a friendship visit. From February till June 2008 she was patrolling the Somali waters for the World Food Programme. The ship was back in these same waters in 2009 for Operation Atalanta. In early December 2009, she was involved in the capture of a group of Somali pirates, who had allegedly attacked the merchant ship BBC Togo.^[1]

In 2014, Commander Jos Oppeneer became HNLMS Evertsen's commanding officer.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2020, the ship served a defensive role as part of the HMS Queen Elizabeth Task Group for GROUPEX and Joint Warrior Exercises. She became one of eight ships escorting the British aircraft carrier, including six other Royal Navy vessels and the US destroyer USS The Sullivans. In a statement, Commanding Officer Cdr Rick Ongering praised the close and long-standing relationship between both navies.^[2][3][4]

In 2021, Evertsen joined UK Carrier Strike Group 21 on a deployment to the Asia-Pacific.^[5] The aircraft carrier was also accompanied by six British ships, a British submarine and an American destroyer. The ships sailed from Portmouth to the Mediterranean Sea, where an exercise followed with the fleet of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The strike group crossed the South China Sea to Japan via the Suez Canal, India and Singapore. A number of ships, including Evertsen, made an interim visit to the Black Sea.^[6] During the visit to the Black Sea, Russian jets conducted mock attacks on the frigate.^[7]

Gallery

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  Evertsen at anchor near Plymouth Hoe, England in May 2007
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  Evertsen fires a SM-2
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  Evertsen at the magnetic measurement facility in Wilhelmshaven