HNLMS Pelikaan (A801)

HNLMS Pelikaan (A801) was a logistic support vessel of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

History
The ship was built around 1984 at the shipyard Vindholmen Offshore A/S in Arendal, Norway. While originally built for a Norwegian owner, the ship was bought in 1990 by the Royal Netherlands Navy for the purpose of serving as a logistic support vessel for the Netherlands Antilles. After a two-month journey, the ship arrived in Curaçao on 1 September 1990. After her arrival the ship was made ready for its new role as a logistic support vessel at the Curaçaose Dokmaatschappij. She was commissioned a month later on 9 October 1990. In 2005 Pelikaan was decommissioned and replaced a year later by a new ship with the same name.

Service history
Between 1986 and 1990 the ship was used for coastal shipping in Tanzania.

Royal Netherlands Navy
In 1994 Pelikaan acted as communication ship during a jungle training exercise of the Netherlands Marine Corps.