Ogoja 1965
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
Ogoja (ex-Queen Wilhelmina, ex-PC468) | Geo Lawley, Neponset, USA | 1.1942 | 30.4.1942 | 6.1942 // 7.1963 | wrecked 10.1969 |
Displacement standard, t |
280 |
Displacement full, t |
335 |
Length, m |
51.8 wl 52.9 oa |
Breadth, m |
7.06 |
Draught, m |
2.36 full load |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 diesels |
Power, h. p. |
2880 |
Max speed, kts |
20 |
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 49 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 3000 (12) |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR |
Electronic equipment |
SO radar, QHA sonar |
Complement | 59 |
Project history: PC-type patrol craft, transferred by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt to Queen of the Netherlands as a gift and lent later to Nigeria. Later transferred permanently.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Ogoja wrecked in October 1969 off Brass (Niger Delta) during the civil war.
© Ivan Gogin, 2016