HrMs Mercuur (A900)
Mercuur is a Submarine Support
Ship and Torpedo Trials and Recovery Vessel with the Netherlands Navy. She was accepted in the Dutch service in
August 1987 and displaces 1,400 tonnes.
An ASW escort version of the
design was unsuccessful offered commercially.
She has a helicopter vertical-replenishment deck above the torpedo
workshop. The sonar array is a large
bow-mounted dome that protrudes well below the keel; the two underwater torpedo
muzzles exit near the bow. Two 20mm
Oerlikon Mk 10 AA originally fitted have been removed, as has been the triple
324mm ASW torpedo tube mounting. She has
twin screw diesel electric drive and as well as being able to launch and
recover torpedoes, Mercuur is able to act as a minelayer
She is seen her making her first
visit to Leith on Friday 22nd June
2012.
