Commissioned 16 July 1979 Speed 30 knots (56 km/h) Launched 22 December 1977 Weight 1,473 tons | Laid down 31 January 1977 Status in active service Construction started 31 January 1977 Length 84 m Displacement 1.315 million kg | |
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Class and type Fatahillah-class corvette | ||
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KRI Fatahillah is an Indonesian Navy ship named after Fatahillah, a national war heroic figure who recaptured Sunda Kelapa from the Portuguese and consequently changed its name to Jayakarta. Taking as a definition of a corvette "vessels with a displacement greater than 100 tons but less than 1,700 tons", the ship is a missile-equipped corvette, the first ship of Fatahillah class.
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The ship was part of a team several Indonesian and one US Navy vessels searching for the missing Adam Air Flight 574. It located several unidentified metal objects which may have been part of the missing plane.
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