Schips bell of mine hunter "M859 Hr.Ms. Hellevoetsluis" - Droogdok Jan Blanken (Hellevoetsluis/NL)
Schips bell of mine hunter "M859 Hr.Ms. Hellevoetsluis". Active service: 1987-2011.A Dutch mine hunter of the Alkmaar class and the fourth ship named after the town of Hellevoetsluis located in Voorne-Putten. The ship was built by the shipyard van der Giessen de Noord in Alblasserdam.
Because of cutbacks, Hr.Ms. Hellevoetsluis from October 14, 2011 put out of service.In service of the Royal Marine.
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Hellevoetsluis - Droogdok Jan Blanken - Fortresse Holland
Droogdok Jan Blanken - the Dry dock Jan Blanken is a national monument built for the Dutch navy between 1798 and 1822 (architect Jan Blanken) in Hellevoetsluis for the construction and maintenance of ships. Equipped with new techniques such as a pump house (rebuilt in 2001, now a restaurant) with a James Watt steam engine and hundreds of piles were driven into the ground for the dock foundation. The dock has a ship door (type of lock, French invention), and devided in a maintenance and construction section, the walls of which are constructed as an amphitheater to facilitate easy ship maintenance. The naval frigate Euridice was the first ship to be docked.
After the departure of the Dutch Navy until 1970, in operation, completely restored in 2005, and now a museum with the still fully functioning dock for maintenance on ships.
See: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droogdok_Jan_Blanken.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #navy #history #museum #Droogdok #Hellevoetsluis #NL
Schips bell of mine hunter "M859 Hr.Ms. Hellevoetsluis" - Droogdok Jan Blanken (Hellevoetsluis/NL)
Schips bell of mine hunter "M859 Hr.Ms. Hellevoetsluis". Active service: 1987-2011.A Dutch mine hunter of the Alkmaar class and the fourth ship named after the town of Hellevoetsluis located in Voorne-Putten. The ship was built by the shipyard van der Giessen de Noord in Alblasserdam.
Because of cutbacks, Hr.Ms. Hellevoetsluis from October 14, 2011 put out of service.In service of the Royal Marine.
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Hellevoetsluis - Droogdok Jan Blanken - Fortresse Holland
Droogdok Jan Blanken - the Dry dock Jan Blanken is a national monument built for the Dutch navy between 1798 and 1822 (architect Jan Blanken) in Hellevoetsluis for the construction and maintenance of ships. Equipped with new techniques such as a pump house (rebuilt in 2001, now a restaurant) with a James Watt steam engine and hundreds of piles were driven into the ground for the dock foundation. The dock has a ship door (type of lock, French invention), and devided in a maintenance and construction section, the walls of which are constructed as an amphitheater to facilitate easy ship maintenance. The naval frigate Euridice was the first ship to be docked.
After the departure of the Dutch Navy until 1970, in operation, completely restored in 2005, and now a museum with the still fully functioning dock for maintenance on ships.
See: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droogdok_Jan_Blanken.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #navy #history #museum #Droogdok #Hellevoetsluis #NL