HNLMS ''Jan van Brakel'' (F825) () was a

frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...

of the in service with the

Royal Netherlands Navy The Royal Netherlands Navy (, ) is the Navy, maritime service branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. It traces its history to 8 January 1488, making it the List of navies, third-oldest navy in the world. During the 17th and early 18th centurie ...

from 1983-2001. She was renamed HS ''Kanaris'' (F464) (

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: Φ/Γ ''Κανάρης'') upon transfer to the

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in 2002.

General characteristics

In the early 1970s, the Royal Netherlands Navy developed a 'Standard' frigate design to replace the destroyers of the and es. The 'Standard' design would have anti-submarine (the ) and anti-aircraft (the ) variants with different armaments on a common hull design. The first eight ''Kortenaer''s were ordered in 1974, with four more ordered in 1976, although two were sold to Greece while being built, and replaced by two of the anti-aircraft variant.. The ''Kortenaer''s were

long overall Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline. This length is important while docking the ship. It is the most commonly used way of expressing the size of a ship, and is also u ...

and

between perpendiculars Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the ster ...

, with a beam) of and a

draft Draft, the draft, or draught may refer to: Watercraft dimensions * Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel * Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail * Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a v ...

of ..

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was standard and full load. The ship was powered by two

Rolls-Royce Olympus The Rolls-Royce Olympus (originally the Bristol B.E.10 Olympus) was the world's second two- spool axial-flow turbojet aircraft engine design, first run in May 1950 and preceded only by the Pratt & Whitney J57, first-run in January 1950. It i ...

TM 3B and two

Rolls-Royce Tyne The Rolls-Royce RB.109 Tyne is a twin-shaft turboprop engine developed in the mid to late 1950s by Rolls-Royce Limited to a requirement for the Vickers Vanguard airliner. It was first test flown during 1956 in the nose of a modified Avro Linco ...

TM 1C

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s in a

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(COGOG) arrangement, driving two propeller shafts. The Olympus engines gave a speed of , and the Tyne cruise engines gave a speed of .

Dutch service history

HNLMS ''Jan van Brakel'' was built at the KM de Schelde in Vlissingen. She was named after Jan van Brakel, a Dutch naval commander from the seventeenth century. The

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took place on 16 November 1979, and she was launched on 16 May 1981. The ship was put into service on 14 April 1983. In 1988, she made a trip to the Far East and Australia to show the flag and for training, with the frigates & and the replenishment ship . From March-October 1993, she was deployed in the

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, supporting

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and UN operations in

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. On 12 October 2001, she was decommissioned and sold to the

Greek service history

The ship was commissioned into the

on 29 November 2002 and renamed HS ''Kanaris'' (

: Φ/Γ ''Κανάρης'') after

Konstantinos Kanaris Konstantinos Kanaris (, ; c. 1790Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted ...

and later

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. She was assigned the radio call sign "SZDT". File:Kanaris (F-464) in Málaga, 2008-08-11.jpg, Hellenic Navy frigate HS ''Kanaris'' (Φ/Γ ''Κανάρης'') in Málaga. File:20080702-Faliron-HS Kanaris-F464.jpg, Hellenic Navy frigate HS ''Kanaris'' (Φ/Γ ''Κανάρης'') at Phaleron Bay.

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