HNLMS Blommendal

HNLMS Blommendal (A905) is a former hydrographic survey vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

HNLMS Blommendal
History
Netherlands
Name	Blommendal
Namesake	Antonie Rudolphus Blommendal
Builder	Boele's Scheepwerven en Machinefabriek B.V., Bolnes
Laid down	1 August 1972
Launched	21 November 1972
Commissioned	22 May 1973
Decommissioned	15 December 1999
Identification	Hull number: A905
Fate	Scrapped in 2016
General characteristics [1]
Type	Buyskes-class hydrographic survey vessel
Displacement	1,033 t (1,017 long tons)
Length	59.50 m (195 ft 3 in)
Beam	11.20 m (36 ft 9 in)
Draught	3.70 metres (12 ft 2 in)
Installed power	1,400 hp (1,000 kW)
Propulsion	1 propeller 3 Paxman diesel engines
Speed	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)
Crew	43

History

Blommendal was built by Boele's Scheepwerven en Machinefabriek B.V. located at Bolnes in 1973, and named for the first chef of the Dienst der Hydrografie, Antonie Rudolphus Blommendal.

Blommendal was laid up for years near Amsterdam until she was finally scrapped in 2016 at Treffers Shiprecycling BV in Haarlem.^[2][3]

Her sister ship Buyskes was sold to the Latvian Navy in 2004.^[4]