Allied Warships

HNMS Queen Wilhelmina (PC-468)

Patrol craft of the PC-461 class

NavyThe Royal Dutch Navy
TypePatrol craft
ClassPC-461 
PennantPC-468 
Built byGeorge Lawley & Sons Inc. (Neponset, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down1 Jan 1942 
Launched30 Apr 1942 
Commissioned6 Aug 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Loaned by the Royal Netherlands Navy to the Nigerian Navy on 26 July 1963 while being renamed Ogoya.
Transferred to the Nigerian Navy on 16 September 1965.
Sunk in October 1969.

 
Former nameUSS PC-468

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Noteable events involving Queen Wilhelmina include:


8 Jul 1944
HrMs Queen Wilhelmina picks up 31 survivors from the American tanker Esso Harrisburg that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-516 about 200 nautical miles north-west of Aruba in position 13º26'N, 72º11'W.

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