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NIGERIAN NAVY (NIGERIA)

COASTAL FORCES

OGOJA large patrol craft (1942/1963)

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.

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