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F 809   -   HNLMS Dubois

 

 

HNLMS Dubois (F 809)

Type, Class:

 

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

Builder:

 

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

STATUS:

 

Laid down: August 26, 1943

Launched: November 14, 1943

Commissioned: December 6, 1943 (as USS O'Neill / DE 188)

Decommissioned: May 2, 1946

transferred to the Netherlands – October 23, 1950

renamed HNLMS Dubois / F 809

Decommissioned: 1967 (as HNLMS Dubois / F 809)

Fate: returned to US on December 15, 1967;

sold for scrap - February 1968; scrapped in W-Germany;

Homeport:

 

-

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

 

 

 

Eland Dubois

sorry, no picture available

 

Information & History

Eland Dubois (?? – ??):

 

Eland Dubois (or du Bois), Captain of the Admiralty of Maze. Captain of the ship "Ridderschap" during the Naval Battle of Kijkduin (the Battle of Texel – 3rd Anglo-Dutch war), in August, 1673.

... more info needed ...

 

HNLMS Dubois (F 809):

 

F 809 history wanted

 

patches

 

… patches wanted …

 

 

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