Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding

Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding is a Dutch shipyard, and a continuation of the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, responsible for a number of ships used by the Royal Netherlands Navy. It is owned by the Damen Group. Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding is situated in Vlissingen.

History

The company was founded October 8, 1875, as the NV Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde (KMS) after shipbuilder Arie Smit had taken over the Marine Etablissement the wharf owned by the Dutch navy. Besides shipbuilding and repair, the company also builds machines, engines, steam turbines, airplanes, and light-metal products.

In 1965 the company merged with the NV Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM) and the NV Motorenfabriek Thomassen of De Steeg, which resulted in the founding, on March 4, 1966, of the Rijn-Schelde Machinefabrieken en Scheepswerven NV (RSMS). Pressured by the Dutch government the Verolme Verenigde Scheepswerven NV was added, and this was the start of Rijn-Schelde-Verolme Machinefabrieken en Scheepswerven NV (RSV). RSV went under and split up, and its shares were taken over by the government and the province of Zeeland. Its name was changed to Koninklijke Schelde Groep BV (KSG) in 1991. In 2000 the government and the province sold their shares to the Damen Group of Gorinchem, and KSG became the company's branch charged with building larger ships for naval and coastguard duty.

Aircraft projects

Warships built

Name Launched Note
Coastal defence ships
Evertsen 1894
Cruisers
Zeeland 1897
Noordbrabant 1899
Java 1921
Destroyers
Wolf 1910
Fret 1910
Bulhond 1911
Jakhals 1912
Lynx 1912
Hermelijn 1913
Van Ghent 1926
Philips van Almonde - not completed due to WWII
Isaac Sweers 1940
Zeeland 1953
Noord-Brabant 1953
Limburg 1955
Utrecht 1956
Submarines
O 1 1905
O 2 1911
O 3 1912
O 4 1913
O 5 1913
O 6 1915/16
O 9 1925
O 12 1930
O 13 1931
O 14 1931
O 16 1936
O 21 1939
O 22 1940
K I 1913
K III 1919
K IV 1920
K VIII 1922
K IX 1922
K X 1923
Gunboats
Johan Maurits van Nassau 1932
Replenishment ships
Amsterdam 1992

Bibliography


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