 HMS Dalrymple in Tanganyika
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Dalrymple |
| Namesake | Alexander Dalrymple |
| Ordered | 25 January 1943 |
| Builder | William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., South Bank, Middlesbrough |
| Yard number | 263 |
| Laid down | 29 April 1944 |
| Launched | 12 April 1945 |
| Commissioned | 10 February 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 2 February 1966 |
| Identification | Pennant number K427//A302 |
| Fate | Sold to Portugal, March 1966 |
| Badge | On a Field White, nine lozenges conjoined in saltire Red |
 Portugal | |
| Name | NRP Afonso de Albuquerque |
| Acquired | March 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 14 January 1983 |
| Identification | A526 |
| Fate | Expended as a target July 1994 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bay-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) |
| Range | 724 tons oil fuel, 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 133 |
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HMS Dalrymple was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, which served as a survey ship, mostly in the Persian Gulf, from 1948 until 1965. She was completed to deal with the large numbers of uncharted wrecks and mines around the British Isles as a result of World War II. For this purpose she was fitted for minesweeping. She was named for the pioneering Hydrographer of the Admiralty Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808).[1][2]