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Port bow view of S.S. AMSTERDAM at Cardiff Docks.

The Dutch frigate Amsterdam in the Roath Basin, c.1972. Built in the city after which she was named in 1958, this vessel was one of the Friesland class of frigates, all of which were named after provinces and cities in the Netherlands. The entire class has gradually been withdrawn since 1975. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).

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.