HNLMS Utrecht (D817)

Utrecht
History
Netherlands
Name	Utrecht
Namesake	Utrecht
Builder	KM de Schelde, Vlissingen
Laid down	15 February 1954
Launched	2 June 1956
Commissioned	1 October 1957
Decommissioned	15 August 1980
Fate	Sold to the Peruvian Navy
Peru
Name	Castilla
Acquired	1980
Decommissioned	1990
Identification	DD71
Status	decommissioned
General characteristics
Type	Friesland-class destroyer
Displacement	2497 standard, 3070 tons full load
Length	116 m (381 ft)
Beam	11.7 m (38 ft)
Draught	5.2 m (17 ft)
Propulsion	2 shaft geared turbines, 4 BW boilers, Super-heated steam @ 620psi, 60,000 hp
Speed	36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	284
Sensors and processing systems	Radar LW-02, DA-01, ZW-01, M45, Sonar Type PAE 1N, Type CWE 10
Armament	4 × Bofors 120 mm guns (2 × 2) 6 × 40mm Bofors AA guns (6 × 1) 8 × 375 mm anti submarine mortars (2 × 4) 2 × depth charge racks

HNLMS Utrecht (D817) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Utrecht) was a destroyer of the Friesland class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1957 to 1980. The destroyer was named after the Dutch province of Utrecht and was the eighteenth ship with this name. In 1980 the ship was taken out of service and sold to Peru where it was renamed Castilla. The ship's radio call sign was "PAEY".^[1]