NRP Afonso Cerqueira (F488)
.jpg) The Afonso Cerqueira (2011)
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The NRP Afonso Cerqueira (F488) was a Baptista de Andrade class corvette of the Portuguese Navy . It was named after Afonso Cerqueira , a Portuguese admiral who died in 1957. The ship was deliberately sunk off Madeira in 2018 .
tasks
The ship was designed as a light escort ship in the high seas and later rebuilt to secure the sea area and the interests and authority of Portugal at sea. She carried out search and rescue missions in the large sea area, as well as patrols and the monitoring of national law, for example for the protection and inspection of fishing vessels and maritime resources.
history
The Afonso Cerqueira was built at the Spanish shipyard Bazan in Cartagena . The ship was launched on October 6, 1973 and the ship entered service on June 28, 1975, at a time when the last Portuguese colonies were granted independence. The year before, the Carnation Revolution had swept away the dictatorship . On the night of August 27, 1975, Mário Lemos Pires , the last governor of the Portuguese Timor colony, and his administration left the colonial capital Dili and evacuated to the island of Atauro off the city before the civil war broke out . In October, Afonso Cerqueira came to Atauro as the first support for Pires. On December 8, 1975, one day after the open invasion of the colony by Indonesia and the occupation of Dili, Pires left Atauro for Portugal , with the help of the Afonso Cerqueira and her sister ship João Roby . This ended the Portuguese rule on Timor .
As the first Portuguese warship after the Second World War , the Afonso Cerqueira sailed around the world . In Horta on the Azores island of Faial the ship caught fire in 1998.
On March 11, 2015, the Afonso Cerqueira was decommissioned. It was sunk on September 4, 2018 at Cabo Girão off Madeira and now serves as an artificial reef to increase the biodiversity in the sea. The wreck lies 400 meters off the coast at a depth of 30 meters.
technical description
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The corvette was 85 meters long, 10.3 meters wide and had a draft of 3.3 meters. She had a displacement of 1,380 tons and reached a maximum speed of 23 knots. 71 men (including seven officers and 14 non-commissioned officers) made up the crew. The Afonso Cerqueira had a 100 mm rapid fire gun of the Creusot-Loire type and two 40 mm Bofors L / 70 guns. The equipment included a KH5000 Nucleu radar and a Racal Decca RM 316P radar.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marinha Portuguesa: NRP Afonso Cerqueira
- ^ Nuno Miguel Pedro do Souto: Relatório da Atividade Profissional , dissertation, November 29, 2013.
- ↑ History of Timor ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 824 kB) - Technical University of Lisbon
- ^ Frédéric Durand: Three centuries of violence and struggle in East Timor (1726-2008) , Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
- ↑ a b Lino Ramos: Afunda-se um navio, cria-se um recife, Descla, September 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Mundo Português: Marinha afunda navio para se tornar num recife artificial na Madeira , September 3, 2018
