HNLMS ''Overijssel'' (D815) ( nl, Hr.Ms. Overijssel) was a

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of the . The ship was in service with the

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from 1957 to 1982. The destroyer was named after the Dutch province of

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and was the twelfth ship with this name. In 1982 the ship was taken out of service and sold to Peru where it was renamed ''Coronel Bolognesi''.

Design

The s were an improved and larger derivative of the previous , with more powerful machinery and heavier anti-aircraft armament. Like the ''Holland''s, they were specialised escort ships, intended to defend convoys and task forces against hostile submarines and air attack. ''Overijssel'' was

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and

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, with a

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of and a draught of .

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was standard and full load. Unusually for destroyer-type ships, the ''Friesland''s were fitted with side and deck armour to protect against splinter damage from near-misses by bombs. The machinery was based on that of the American s, with four

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boilers feeding two sets of geared

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s rated at and driving two propeller shafts. This gave a speed of . Range was at . The ship had a crew of 284officers and other ranks. As built, ''Overijssel'' had a main gun armament of two twin Bofors 120 mm (4.7 in) automatic dual-purpose guns, with a close-in anti-aircraft armament of six

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guns, four grouped around the

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and two forward of the ship's bridge. Anti-submarine armament consisted of two quadruple launchers for

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and two depth charge racks. In 1961, ''Overijssel'' was fitted with eight fixed 533 mm (21 inch) torpedo tubes for anti-submarine torpedoes, but these were unsuccessful and were removed by 1962. The two 40 mm guns forward of the bridge were removed in 1965 and the fire control systems for the remaining 40 mm guns removed in 1977–78.

Dutch service history

HNLMS ''Overijssel'' was one of eight s and was built at the

Wilton-Fijenoord Wilton-Fijenoord was a shipbuilding and repair company in Schiedam the Netherlands from 1929 to 1999. Presently, the shipyard of Wilton-Feijnoord is part of Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam. Merger of Wilton and Fijenoord (1929) Wilton-Fijenoord had ...

in Schiedam. The ship was

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on 15 October 1953 and was launched on 8 August 1955. ''Overijssel'' was put into service on 4 October 1957. On 1 July 1958 ''Overijssel'' departed from

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. It reached

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on 7 August 1958 via the

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and

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. In November 1959 the ship returned to Den Helder. In 1962 ''Overijssel'' again served in Dutch New Guinea. After the signing of the

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, ''Overijssel'' sailed the Sorong-

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route several times and again to remove troops from the army. On 14 November 1962 the ship left Biak as the last Dutch navy ship to leave Dutch New Guinea (Biak), returning to the Netherlands via the Suez Canal. On 8 June 1977 ''Overijssel'', with the frigate , the replenishment ship and destroyer , visited

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. This was the first Dutch squadron to visit Leningrad in twenty one years. ''Overijssel'' was guardship for the

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, the last of five races of the

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. When severe weather hit the race on 13 and 14 August, the ship participated in rescue operations, both acting as a communications relay and directly rescuing the crews of yachts that had sunk or were in distress. ''Overijssel'' rescued survivors from three yachts as well as recovering several dead bodies. 8 February 1982 the ship together with the frigates , , , and the replenishment ship departed from

for a trip to the USA to show the flag and for 200 years diplomatic relations. The ships returned to Den Helder on 19 May 1982. On 11 June 1982 the vessel was decommissioned and sold to the

Peruvian Navy The Peruvian Navy ( es, link=no, Marina de Guerra del Perú, abbreviated MGP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the Pacific Ocean up to from the Peruvian littoral. Addit ...

Peruvian service history

The ship was commissioned into the Peruvian Navy on 14 June 1982 where the ship was renamed ''Coronel Bolognesi'' with the pennant number 70. The ship was decommissioned in 1990.

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