OVERVIEW: The WIELINGEN class frigate is a gas-turbine powered frigate.

DETAILS:   The WIELINGEN was designed specifically for service in the North Sea/Channel area.  Design emphasis was place on seaworthiness, watertight ingegrity and automation.

NOTES: Displacement: 1880 tons standard
       Speed: 20 knts
       Range: 4500 nm @ 18 knts
       Complement: 160
       In Commission: 1978  

SOURCES: Gardiner, Robert, and Norman Friedman. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1982. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1983, pg 2.



