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. Van Nes has been transferred today in Den Helder to Portugal. The frigate since its indienststelling in 1994, approximately a million has taken off sea miles (more than 1.8 million km). Under Portuguese flag speed them under the name `Bartolomeu Dias'.
Ricocheting the frigates results from a plan to adapt that the Navy this way she is better able Dutch crisis operations and support country operations abroad. For this plan 4 patrol ships are among others bought. Also the new amphibious barge Johan the Witt determines component of the moderniseringslag of the Dutch sea armed forces.
Arms smuggling
After the attacks of 11 September 2001 the Dutch ship in the Mediterranean Sea patrolled. The frigate went against that arms smuggling as a component of the international fight against terrorism. In 2003, Van Nes approximately escorted 50 ships by the street of Ormoes and Bab already Mandab at the Arab peninsula.
Aid
Van Nes was also used for aid to bereaved of the earthquake on West-Sumatra (2000) and after the hurricane `Felix' in Nicaragua (2007,). Van Nes has been named after to the Dutch Navy officer Aert Jansse van Nes (1626-1693).
Frigate Van Galen
The youngest sailor carries the last flag of the Hr. M. Van Nes to luitenant-generaal Rob ZuiderwijkTraditionally the youngest sailor gives the last flag of the Hr.Ms. Van Nes to the commander Zeestrijdkrachten luitenant-generaal Rob Zuiderwijk.
Portugal takes over this autumn also the Dutch frigate Van Galen of the same class. Since 2005 stootte Dutch still 4 M-fregatten finished, 2 to Belgian and 2 to the Chilean Navy