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Name | Wamandai |
Operator | ![]() |
Builder | Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Den Helder |
Laid down | 27 August 1958 |
Launched | 28 May 1960 |
Commissioned | 1962 |
Fate | Sold in 1985 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Tugboat |
Displacement | 126 t (124 long tons) |
Length | 27.25 m (89 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 6.98 m (22 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 2.80 m (9 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Crew | 9 |
Armament | 2 x 20 mm machine guns[2] |
HNLMS Wamandai (A870) was a tugboat of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN).[2] She was built in the Netherlands and served between 1962 and 1985 in the RNN.[1]
On 27 August 1958 Wamandai was laid down and on 28 May 1960 she was launched at the Rijkswerf in Den Helder.[3][1] The tugboat was commissioned in 1962.[2]
Wamandai was originally meant to serve in Dutch New Guinea.[1] However, soon after being commissioned it was no longer part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.[4][5] The tugboat was therefore sent to Curaçao in May 1964.[6] This made it the first tugboat of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN) to be stationed in the Netherlands Antilles.[7]
As a result of increased tension between British Guiana and Suriname the Wamandai was sent in 1964 to guard the entrance to the Corantijn River.[8][9] The Wamandai was used in this role until the hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Luymes arrived in Suriname, after which the Wamandai returned to the Netherlands Antilles.[6][10]
In March 1984 the Wamandai took part in a large navy exercise on Bonaire, during this exercise an amphibious landing was performed.[11]
In 1985 the Wamandai was auctioned and sold by the RNN.[12][1]