Willemsoord (not to be confused with the Willemsorde or Military William Order) is the name of two locations in the Netherlands: Willemsoord, Steenwijkerland...
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Willemsoord is a large former naval base of the Royal Netherlands Navy in Den Helder. It is now connected to the city center of Den Helder, and focuses...
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Willemsoord is a village in the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Friesland. For the most part it lays within the municipality Steenwijkerland, and small...
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Willemsoord Dry Dock I is a historic dry dock in Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands. It was constructed from 1813 till 1822, under the direction of Jan...
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Navy. Both tugboats of the Bambi class were built at the Rijkswerf in Willemsoord. Bambi was launched on 12 May 1953 and Dombo on 25 May 1957. They were...
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Willemsoord Dry Dock I could be perhaps be used for these screw frigates, but then only by unloading them. The acute problem was that Willemsoord Dry...
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Rijkswerf Willemsoord 1 January 1961 14 December 1961 25 June 1962 Out of service Prototype, decommissioned on 8 December 1986. L9511 Rijkswerf Willemsoord October...
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the villages Wilhelminaoord and Boschoord (in Southwest Drenthe) and Willemsoord (in Northwest Overijssel). These "free" colonies were primarily for sponsored...
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Nieuwediep (river) (section Willemsoord)
Nieuwediep was a canal and harbor. In about 1800 the major naval base Willemsoord was constructed west of it, soon followed by a major commercial port...
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and museum in Den Helder North-Holland. It protected the naval base Willemsoord. The fortress had 4 heavy naval guns placed in two armored cupolas. Nowadays...
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Steggerda Ter Idzard Vinkega Wolvega Zandhuizen A small part of the village Willemsoord lays within Weststellingwerf and Noordwolde-Zuid is also mainly named...
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and ordered the construction of a fort (Kijkduin) and naval dockyards (Willemsoord). The docks were built during the years 1813–1827. In 1947, it officially...
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1862 she was planned to be the first ship to use the new Willemsoord Dry Dock II in Willemsoord. While workmen were preparing for her entrance, the bottom...
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SAIL Amsterdam 2010 Class overview Name Triton class Builders Rijkswerf Willemsoord Operators Royal Netherlands Navy Preceded by HNLMS Cerberus (A895) Succeeded by...
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After the ship was completed on 16 July 1883 she left the Rijkswerf for Willemsoord, Den Helder, where her trials commenced. Van Speyk was sent to the Dutch...
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finished, and Vlissingen Navy was usable again. That same year Willemsoord Dry Dock I in Willemsoord, Den Helder became unusable till October 1861. It left the...
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monitor Guinea from the Rijkswerf to Willemsoord, Den Helder, where she arrived on 30 May 1879. At Willemsoord the ship had to undergo trials after witch...
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could serve as Guard ship in Willemsoord. In September 1876 the Adolf was being changed to a guard ship in Willemsoord, where it would replace the Kortenaer...
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to 1906 he attended officer training at the Royal Naval Institute at Willemsoord in Den Helder. Furstner was commissioned as a midshipman first class...
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Cerberus went back to Willemsoord, again she was towed. Her commander was Lieutenant von Schmidt auf Altenstadt, and in Willemsoord she would be manned...
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Zuidveen now a suburb of Steenwijk Vollenhove Wanneperveen Wetering Willemsoord Witte Paarden Zuidveen The city of Steenwijk can be visited for daily...
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in geometry. Barrau was educated at the Dutch Royal Naval College at Willemsoord and then at the University of Amsterdam. From 1891 to 1898, Barrau was...
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the largest naval base in the Netherlands. Already before World War I, Willemsoord had become too small for major warships. The wet dock was 325 m (1,066 ft...
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Princess of Orange Willemsdorp – King William I of the Netherlands Willemsoord, Steenwijkerland – King William II of the Netherlands Willemstad, North...
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built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1950s at the Rijkswerf in Willemsoord, Den Helder. They were paid for by the United States under the Mutual...
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the defense of Den Helder and the Naval base Willemsoord. While these were busy years for the Willemsoord navy base, not much seems to have happened at...
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poverty. In Drenthe, it founded the 'free colonies' of Frederiksoord, Willemsoord and Wilhelminaoord, where the poor from big cities would learn to care...
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The tugboats of the Westgat class were constructed at the Rijkswerf in Willemsoord. Both tugboats were commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1968...
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inhabitants were people who had been banned from the neighbouring colony Willemsoord, founded by the Society of Humanitarianism. These inhabitants settled...
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Lacomblé trained in navigation at the Royal Netherlands Naval College in Willemsoord in 1914. In 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant (Lieutenant ter Zee or...
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