HNLMS Johan de Witt vs Spanish ship Juan Carlos I

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AAmphibious assault ships

HNLMS Johan de Witt

Rotterdam -class landing platform dock

BAmphibious assault ships

Spanish ship Juan Carlos I

aircraft carrier - landing helicopter dock (LHD)

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Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

HNLMS Johan de WittLength

176.35 m

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Spanish ship Juan Carlos ILength

230.82 m

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HNLMS Johan de Wittlarger figure on 0 of 4

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Spanish ship Juan Carlos Ilarger figure on 4 of 4

Length+31%

Measured figures

Head to head

24 of 35 rows sourced on both sides

176m

231m

Length+31%

All recorded figures & sources

176.35 m

Length

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176.35 m (578 ft 7 in)^[source]

230.82 m

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Configuration

Details

HNLMS Johan de Witt and Spanish ship Juan Carlos I configuration
Specification	HNLMS Johan de Witt	Spanish ship Juan Carlos I
Power	Diesel-electric system 4 × Stork Wärtsilä 14,800 kW (19,800 hp) with Podded Propulsion bow thruster^[source]	2 × 11 MW POD , GE ITP LM2500 + Navantia MAN 16V32/40^[source]
Name	Johan de Witt^[source]	Juan Carlos I^[source]
Namesake	Johan de Witt^[source]	King Juan Carlos I of Spain^[source]
Operator	Royal Netherlands Navy^[source]

Builder	Damen Shipyards Galați , Romania Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding , Netherlands (fitting out)^[source]	Navantia^[source]

Cost	ƒ 260m^[source]	€ 462 million^[source]

Laid down	18 June 2003^[source]	May 2005^[source]

Launched	13 May 2006^[source]	22 September 2009^[source]

Commissioned	30 November 2007^[source]	30 September 2010^[source]

Home port	Den Helder^[source]	Naval Station Rota , Rota^[source]

Identification	IMO number : 9280768 MMSI number : 244527000 Callsign : PAJW Deck code : JW^[source]	Pennant number : L61^[source]

Motto	Ago Quod Ago (I do what I do)^[source]	—

Status	in active service^[source]	Active^[source]

Type	Rotterdam -class landing platform dock^[source]	—

Endurance	6 weeks^[source]	—

Boats & landing craft carried	2 × 7 m (23 ft) RHIB Up to 4 x LCVP or 12 m (39 ft) RHIB 2 × LCU in welldock Provisions for Combat Boat 90 's. Can also accommodate LCACs^[source]	Four LCM-1E^[source]

Capacity	170 armoured personnel carriers or 33 main battle tanks^[source]	913 soldiers + up to 46 Leopard 2E tanks^[source]

Troops	555 marines^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Thales Netherlands Variant 2D Combined air / surface radar Thales Netherlands Gatekeeper E/O Warning system SATCOM, Link 11 , JMCIS^[source]	LANZA-N air search, ARIES surface search, PAR aircraft landing EID ICCS integrated communications control system^[source]

Electronic warfare & decoys	4 x Sippican Hycor SRBOC MK36 launcher^[source]	REGULUS and RIGEL^[source]

Armament	2 × Goalkeeper CIWS 4-6 x Browning .50 and FN MAG machine guns^[source]	4 × RWS Sentinel 2.0 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns 2 x BPDMS (FBNW) 1 x VLS (FBNW)^[source]

Aircraft carried	6 x NH90 NFH or 6 x H215M Cougar or 4 x CH-47F Chinook helicopters^[source]	AV-8B Harrier II , Chinook , Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk , NH90^[source]

Aviation facilities	Hangar and stern helicopter flight deck with two landing spots^[source]	—

Source measurement	HNLMS Johan de Witt ( Dutch : Zr.Ms. Johan de Witt ) is the second Rotterdam -class landing platform dock of the Royal Netherlands Navy . It is an improved design of Rotterdam , which was designed in conjunction between the Netherlands and Spain. The ship, displacing 16,800 tons, was launched on 13 May 2006. The motto of the ship is Ago Quod Ago , translated as I do what I do .^[source]HNLMS Johan de Witt · Lead; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage	—

Ordered	—	5 September 2003^[source]

Class & type	—	Juan Carlos I class^[source]

Notes	—	Aircraft composition: Pure combat: 25 AV-8B/F-35B + 6 flight deck parking spots Mix: 11 AV-8B + 12 NH90 + 6 flight deck parking spots Pure transport: 25 NH90 + 6 flight deck parking spots^[source]