Navy | The Royal Dutch Navy |
Type | Patrol craft |
Class | PC-461 |
Pennant | PC-468 |
Built by | George Lawley & Sons Inc. (Neponset, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 1 Jan 1942 |
Launched | 30 Apr 1942 |
Commissioned | 6 Aug 1942 |
End service | |
History | Loaned by the Royal Netherlands Navy to the Nigerian Navy on 26 July 1963 while being renamed Ogoya. |
Former name | USS PC-468 |
Commands listed for HNMS Queen Wilhelmina (PC-468)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | luitenant ter zee 1e klasse (Lt.Cdr.) Antonie Willem Kruk, RNN | 6 Aug 1942 | 21 Sep 1943 |
2 | luitenant ter zee 1e klasse (Lt.Cdr.) Jan Louis van Meeuwen, RNN | 21 Sep 1943 | 31 Jul 1944 |
3 | luitenant ter zee 1e klasse (Lt.Cdr.) Simon Hendrik Rosier, RNN | 31 Jul 1944 | 13 Jun 1945 |
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Notable 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 German U-boat U-516 about 200 nautical miles north-west of Aruba in position 13°26'N, 72°11'W.