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One of six US-built Destroyer Escorts of the Cannon Class, transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1950 under the Mutual Defense Aid Plan. Built for escorting convoys during WW2, these diesel-electric ships were mainly used by countries allied to the US during the build-up of their navies in the fifties. As the Korean War developed in this timeframe, two of the Dutch ships were sent to the... Read more
Destroyer Escort Dubois: EX USS O'Neill
Biography
Maarten Schönfeld (1957) is an aircraft engineer by profession and has been an amateur historian since retiring. He also constructs ship and aircraft models, focusing on 1:350 scale kits of Dutch naval ships. Before retiring, he worked in the international IT industry for large corporations.
