Name Poolster Laid down 19 September 1962 Commissioned 29 June 1964 Length 168 m Draft 8.6 m | Namesake Pole star Launched 16 October 1963 Decommissioned 28 July 1994 Weight 16,840 tons | |
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Builder Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij | ||
HNLMS Poolster (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Poolster) was a replenishment ship serving with the Royal Netherlands Navy. Poolster entered service on 29 June 1964. In 1994 she was decommissioned and sold to the Pakistan Navy where the ship was renamed Moawin. A later replenishment ship Zuiderkruis was based on Poolster. In the Dutch navy she was replaced by the replenishment ship Amsterdam. She was the first ship in the Dutch navy with inbuilt protection against radioactive fallout.
Dutch service
On 8 June 1977 Poolster, with the frigate Tromp and destroyers Groningen and Overijssel, visited Leningrad.
On 12 March 1979 she and the frigates Tromp and Kortenaer and the destroyer Drenthe departed for a trip to the Far East to show the flag.
The frigates De Ruyter, Callenburgh, Jan van Brakel, Van Kinsbergen and Poolster departed from Den Helder on 13 January 1986 for a trip to the Far East to show the flag and promote Dutch trade. The ships returned on 19 June.
She was decommissioned on 28 July 1994 and turned over to the Pakistan Navy to which the ship was sold. The vessel was renamed Moawin. She was the last ship in the Dutch navy powered by steam turbines.