Afonso de Albuquerque in 1935
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History | |
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Portugal | |
Name | Afonso de Albuquerque |
Namesake | Afonso de Albuquerque |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie |
Launched | 1934 |
Commissioned | 28 May 1934 |
Fate | Destroyed in combat in 1961 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Afonso de Albuquerque class |
Displacement |
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Length | 100 m (328 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 13.49 m (44 ft 3 in) |
Draught | 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
Range | 8,000 mi (13,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 191 |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 |
NRP Afonso de Albuquerque was a warship of the Portuguese Navy, named after the 16th-century Portuguese navigator Afonso de Albuquerque. She was destroyed in combat on 18 December 1961, defending Portuguese interests in Goa against the Indian Armed Forces Liberation of Goa.
The ship was the first of the Afonso de Albuquerque class, which also included NRP Bartolomeu Dias. These ships were classified, by the Portuguese Navy, as avisos coloniais de 1ª classe (1st class colonial aviso or sloop) and were designed to maintain a Portuguese naval presence in the Overseas territories of Portugal. They had limited capacity to combat other surface vessels, as they were intended, mainly, to support amphibious operations and troops on land.
After the Second World War, the Afonso de Albuquerque-class ships were reclassified as frigates.
In her career Afonso de Albuquerque served mainly in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, protecting the Portuguese territories of Mozambique, India, Macau and Timor.