Belgium Navy Karel Doorman-class Frigate BNS Louise Marie heading to sea from Devonport UK 15th May

The ‪@belgiannavy5345‬ is seen on 15th May 2023 heading to sea from ‪@RoyalNavy‬ naval base Devonport United Kingdom for Flag Officer Sea Training.

Louise-Marie (F931) is a Karel Doorman-class frigate of the Marine Component of the Belgian Armed Forces that was commissioned in 2008. It is the second of the two frigates of this class that were purchased from the Royal Netherlands Navy on 22 December 2005. It was originally commissioned in 1991 in the Netherlands, where it served as HNLMS Willem van der Zaan (F829).

In September 2010, Louise-Marie was reported to be preparing for a second deployment to the Horn of Africa.

On 29 November 2013, the ship arrived in London, UK as part of the preparations for the centenary of the start of World War I delivering soil from 70 World War I battlefields collected by British and Belgian schoolchildren for the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden in London's Wellington Barracks.

Displacement 2,800 tonnes
Length 122.325 m (401.33 ft)
Beam 14.37 m (47.1 ft)
Draught 6.2 m (20 ft)
Speed 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement 15 officers, 70 NCO's, 60 sailors
Armament
16 × RIM-7 Sea Sparrow anti-air VLS
8 × Boeing Harpoon anti-ship missile
2–6 × FN MAG 7.62 mm machine gun
2–4 × Browning M2 12.7 mm machine gun
2 × Twin-Mark 46 torpedo tubes
1 × OTO Melara 76 mm gun
1 × Goalkeeper CIWS
Aircraft carried 1 x NH-90 NFH helicopter

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