[6] The ship was laid down on 28 November 1949, launched on 21 September 1950 and commissioned into the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN) on 22 May 1951.

[4] The ship was equipped with two 8 cylinder four-stroke Smit-Man diesel engines that could produce 320 horsepower each, for a total of 640 hp.

[4] For performing surveys the ship was equipped with several systems: it had a echo sounder, radar, ASDIC, Decca and gyrocompass.

[9] Nonetheless, Zeefakkel did stay in service of the RNN as training vessel.

After the new vessel was placed in service Zeefakkel was laid up in reserve until January 2000, when she was handed over to the Dutch Sea Cadet Corps as a training ship (nl:Zeekadetkorps).