| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Dampier |
| Namesake | William Dampier |
| Ordered | 23 January 1943 |
| Builder | Smiths Dock Company, South Bank, Middlesbrough |
| Laid down | 7 August 1944 |
| Launched | 15 May 1945, as Herne Bay |
| Commissioned | 4 May 1948, as Dampier |
| Decommissioned | 31 January 1968 |
| Identification | Pennant number K611/A303 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 1968 |
| Badge | On a Field White in front of 3 bars couped wavy Blue, a Roebuck's head erased Proper, gorged with a ducal crown Gold |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bay-class frigate |
| Displacement | |
| 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 |
| Armament |
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HMS Dampier was a survey ship of the Royal Navy, named after the explorer, author and privateer, William Dampier (1652–1715). Originally intended as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate, the ship was in commission from 1948 to 1968, spending her entire career based at Singapore, carrying out survey work.