The Rotterdam class is a Landing Platform Dock or LPD amphibious warfare ship of the Dutch Navy with a large helicopter deck and a dock for large landing craft. Lead ship was HNLMS Rotterdam, pennant number L800, and was launched in 1997. The second ship of the class, HNLMS Johan de Witt (L801), (16,800-tons) was launched in February 2007. Johan de Witt is equipped with podded propulsion and with command and control facilities. (Jane's Defence Weekly, 9 September 2009)

The class was a joint design between the Netherlands and Spain. The two ships of the Spanish belonging to the Galicia class are the Galicia (commissioned in 1998) and the Castilla (2001).

See also

• List of ship launches in 1997

• List of ship commissionings in 1998