NRP Bartolomeu Dias (F471)

Bartolomeu Dias

The Bartolomeu Dias 1935

Ship data flag  Portugal Ship type Aviso class Afonso de Albuquerque class Callsign F471 Shipyard Hawthorne Leslie, UK Launch October 10, 1934 Commissioning April 12, 1935 Decommissioning December 12, 1967

Ship dimensions and crew length 99.6 m ( Lüa ) width 13.49 m Draft Max. 3.81 m displacement Construction: 1,780 t maximum: 2,435 t   crew 191

Machine system machine 2 Yarrow boilers 2 Parsons turbines Machine performance 8,000 PS (5,884 kW) Top speed 20 kn (37 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 4 × 120 mm cannons 2 × 76 mm cannons 4 × 76 mm anti-aircraft guns 2 × throwing devices for depth charges Transport capacity for 40 sea mines Capacity for one aircraft (never used in service)

The NRP Bartolomeu Dias (F471) was a 1st class Aviso ( avisos coloniais de 1ª classe ) of the Portuguese Navy .

history

The Gonçalves Zarco and the Bartolomeu Dias in Dili (1945)

The Bartolomeu Dias was named after the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias . Together with her sister ship, the Afonso de Albuquerque , she belonged to the Afonso de Albuquerque class, which was designed for use in the overseas provinces of Portugal . At ten knots, the ships had a range of 18,000 km. While the Afonso de Albuquerque was primarily intended for use in the Indian Ocean and East Asia, the Bartolomeu Dias was supposed to operate in the Atlantic . The ships should also support the armed forces on land during landing operations. Both ships were built in the British shipyard Hawthorne Leslie in 1933.

After the end of the Japanese occupation of Portuguese Timor in World War II , the Bartolomeu Dias and the Gonçalves Zarco were the first Portuguese ships to bring aid to the colony. They reached the colonial capital on September 27, 1945, the day after the Japanese surrender ceremony in Dili . After the Second World War, the Bartolomeu Dias was used like a frigate . In her callsign she received the identifier F471.

During the occupation of Portuguese India on December 18, 1961 by the Republic of India , the Bartolomeu Dias was in action with three other frigates and a number of patrol boats off Goa, Damão and Diu . But there was only a battle between the Afonso de Albuquerque and Indian warships, in which the Portuguese ship was destroyed. The other Portuguese ships did not come into direct contact with the enemy.

In 1967 the Bartolomeu Dias was first renamed to a naval depot ship and São Cristovão and finally scrapped.

Others

The successor to bear the name is the frigate Bartolomeu Dias (F333) .

Web links

Commons : NRP Bartolomeu Dias (F471)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

• Área militar with photos of Bartolomeu Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c}  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 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. - Lisbon Technical University (PDF file; 805 kB) 
3. ^ Daily News and Analysis India: An Illustrious History. 4th December 2009