NRP João Roby (F487)
The João Roby (2011)
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The NRP João Roby (F487) is a Baptista de Andrade class corvette of the Portuguese Navy . It is named after João Roby , a Portuguese officer who died in 1904 in the south of Portuguese West Africa (now Angola ).
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. It carries 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 João Roby was built at the Spanish shipyard Bazan in Cartagena . The ship was launched on June 3, 1973 and the ship was put into service on March 18, 1975, at a time when the last Portuguese colonies were granted independence. The year before, the Carnation Revolution had swept away the dictatorship . Together with Afonso Cerqueira, João Roby Mário Lemos Pires , the last governor of the Portuguese Timor colony, and his men evacuated from the island of Atauro , where Pires had withdrawn before the civil war that had broken out between FRETILIN and União Democrática Timorense (UDT). The two Portuguese warships left the colony on December 8, 1975, one day after Indonesia had openly started the invasion ( Operation Seroja ) of the Portuguese colony and occupied the colonial capital of Dili , which was in front of Atauro . Indonesia had already occupied the border areas of Portuguese Timor in the months before, to which FRETILIN had responded on November 28 by proclaiming independence . In both cases Portugal did not intervene militarily.
technical description
The corvette is 85 meters long, 10.3 meters wide and has a draft of 3.3 meters. She has a displacement of 1380 t and reaches a maximum speed of 23 knots. 71 men (including seven officers and 14 non-commissioned officers) make up the crew. The João Roby has a 100 mm rapid fire gun of the Creusot-Loire type and two 40 mm Bofors L / 70 guns. The equipment includes a KH5000 Nucleu radar and a Racal Decca RM 316P radar.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marinha Portuguesa: NRP João Roby
- ^ Nuno Miguel Pedro do Souto: Relatório da Atividade Profissional , dissertation, November 29, 2013.
- ^ Frédéric Durand: Three centuries of violence and struggle in East Timor (1726-2008) , Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence