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Linge-class tugboat
Ship design project of the Royal Netherlands Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Linge class[a] are a series of tugboats used by the Royal Netherlands Navy to dock their larger ships at the Nieuwe Haven Naval Base.[2]
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History
The first four ships were built by Shipyard Bijlsma and Delta shipyard in the Netherlands and commissioned in the year 1987. Ten years later another ship, Gouwe, was built by these shipyards and commissioned in 1997. In addition to their main purpose they are used for trips with guests around the harbour and supporting nautical training skills.
Replacement
It was decided that these ships did not provide the required bollard pull to assist the newer larger vessels like HNLMS Karel Doorman. The four oldest ships were replaced by three Damen built hybrid tugboats, the Noordzee class.[2]
Although with the arrival of the first replacement, HNLMS Noordzee, the old tugboats did not prove completely useless when the power onboard Noordzee shut off due to contaminated fuel along the coast of North-Holland and Hunze had to assist.[3]
The first four of these well maintained & reliable ships were sold to MTS Towage in Brixham and Falmouth in the United Kingdom.
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Ships in class
Namesakes
All the ships are named after rivers with five letters ending with an e in The Netherlands:
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Notes
References
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