Royal Netherlands Navy / Koninklijke Marine – Frigate

F 808   -   HNLMS Van Ewijck

 

 

HNLMS Van Ewijck (F 808)

Type, Class:

 

Destroyer Escort / Frigate; Van Amstel (ex US Cannon) -class

Builder:

 

Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock, Port Newark, New Jersey, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: July 5, 1943

Launched: October 3, 1943

Commissioned: November 1, 1943 (as USS Gustafson / DE 182)

Decommissioned: June 26, 1946

transferred to the Netherlands – October 23, 1950

renamed HNLMS Van Ewijck / F 808

Decommissioned: 1967 (as HNLMS Van Ewijck / F 808)

Fate: returned to US on December 15, 1967; sold for scrap - February 1968; scrapped.

Homeport:

 

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Ship’s Motto:

 

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Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO >> Destroyer Escort / Frigate – Van Amstel (ex US Cannon) class

LINK:

 

Official Royal Netherlands Navy site

 

ship images

 

 

 

Willem van Ewijck

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Information & History

Willem van Ewijck (?? – ??):

 

Willem van Ewijck (or Ewijk) was the Captain of the Royal Netherlands Navy frigate "Edam" during the Naval Battle of Kijkduin (the Battle of Texel – 3rd Anglo-Dutch war), in August, 1673.

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HNLMS Van Ewijck (F 808):

 

F 808 history wanted

 

patches

 

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