These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
View of destroyer S.S. AMSTERDAM at Cardiff Docks. Dutch Cruiser also in image.
S.S. AMSTERDAM. Laid down in March 1955 by Netherlands Dock & Shipbuilding Company, Amsterdam. She was completed in 1958 and commissioned into the Dutch Navy on 10th April of that year - decommissioned in 1980. She was powered by two steam turbines, and carried a complement of 284 crew. 1980 – Sold to the Peruvian Navy in May, and renamed B.A.P. VILLAR (Pennant No. DM-77). She was broken up in 1991.
