HNLMS De Zeven Provincien
C 802
1966
(1250 Ships TF-2b)
- Class: De Ruyter - 2 light cruisers of 1938
- Displacement: 9,735 tons light / 11,926 tons full load
- Dimensions: 609 x 57 x 22 ft.
- Machinery: 4 Yarow boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 2 shafts: 85,000 shp = 34 knots
- Guns: 4-5.9in (2x2), 6-57mm AA (3x2), 4-40mm AA (4x1)
- Missiles: 1 twin Terrier Mk 10 SAM launcher (40 missiles)
- Complement: 957
- Builder: Rotterdam Dockyard, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Keel Laid: 19 May 1935
- Launched: 22 Aug 1950
- Commissioned: 17 Dec 1953
- Decommissioned: 16 Oct 1975
- Notes: Laid down as Eendracht, but construction much delayed by German occupation in 1940. Construction to revised design restarted in 1950; commissioned as De Zeven Provincien in 1953. Reconstructed to carry Terrier missiles in place of after main battery. Sold to Peru as Aguirre in 1976.
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