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MSI-6

Courtesy of Arie van Mazijk

Van Hamel call sign:
Papa - Alpha - Mike - Lima

Carillo call sign:
Oscar - Bravo - November - Romeo

MSI-6 was built in The Netherlands and served in the Dutch and Peruvian Navies

Van Straelen Class Inshore Minesweeper:

Laid down 27 April 1959 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program by De Vries Lentsch, Amsterdam, Holland

Launched 28 May 1960

Commissioned HNLMS Van Hamel (M 871), 14 November 1960

Struck from the Dutch Navy list, sold to Peru for ƒ425,000 Dutch Guilders and renamed RPS Carillo (AH 175), 23 February 1984

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 171 t.

Length 108.2'

Beam 21' 8"

Draft 5.9'

Speed 13 kts.

Complement 13

Armament: One 20mm mount

Propulsion: Two 500hp Stork Werkspoor diesel engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
HNLMS Van Hamel (M 871)
	8k	Kapitein-luitenant ter zee Second Class (KLTZ2) Lodewijk van Hamel. 6 June 1915 - 16 June 1941, was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. He was the first secret agent who was dropped from England in the Netherlands, on 27 August 1940 but was discovered and shot. His resistance name was Willem van Dalen	Arie van Mazijk
	53k	14 November 1960 Placed in service
	60k	14 November 1960 Placed in service
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	72k
	36k
	45k
	88k
	86k	Chompff (M 874), ex-MSI-9; Van Hamel and Van Well Groeneveld (M 875), ex-MSI-10
	63k	16 March 1984 Rotterdam, Holland Loading for shipment to Peru
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RPS Carillo (AH 175)
	81k	.	Joe Radigan