Built at the shipyard Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM) as one of the six unties of the Holland-class ordered in 1948. For their design were except for British designs also the lessons learn during the Second World War used. Laid down at slope number 4 on 21 April and launched on 11 April 1953 christened by the spouse of secretary of state for the navy rear admiral Moorman. Commissioned on 30 December 1954 and finally decommissioned in 1977 and sold on 24 February 1978 (according to the offal navy annual book) together with two aluminium launched for ƒ9.000.000 According to Jane‘s sold on 2 January and commissioned on 20 February as the Garcia y Garcia and stricken in 1986. With a displacement of 2.164 tons (Jane’s reported 2.125 standard-2.765 full load) were her dimensions 111,30 x 11,30 x 3,87 metres. Two Werkspoor-Parsons steam turbines with 2 boilers supplied 45.000 ahp allowing with the two screws a speed of 32 miles. The armament consisted of 2x2-12cm guns , 1-4cm machinegun and 2x4 barrels rocket launchers and 2 depth charge recks. Her crew numbered 247-256 men.
