- M924 Primula
M924 "Primula" is a Tripartite class minehunter of the Belgian Naval Component, launched on
December 20 ,1990 at the Mercantile-Belyard shipyard inRupelmonde and christened by Mrs. Adriaensens, the wife of the then Mayor of Willebroek, onJune 12 ,1991 . The patronage of the M924 Primula was accepted by the city ofWillebroek . It was the tenth and last of the Belgian Tripartite class minehunters.It is currently commanded by Lieutenant First Class Nico Hoornaert, who formally received the command of the M924 "Primula" on
10 January 2008 . [cite web
url=http://www.mil.be/navycomp/news/index.asp?LAN=en&ID=1295
title=Change of command M924 Primula
accessdate=2008-02-09
date=2008-01-10
publisher=The Belgian Ministry of Defence]References
External links
* [http://www.mil.be/navycomp/units/index.asp?LAN=en&FILE=unittext&ID=673&MENU=204&PAGE=1 Section of the website of the Belgian Ministry of Defence about the M924 "Primula"]
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