NRP Bartolomeu Dias

History
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Name:	NRP Bartolomeu Dias
Namesake:	Bartolomeu Dias
Builder:	Hawthorn-Leslie
Launched:	10 October 1934
Fate:	Hulked in 1965
General characteristics
Class & type:	Afonso de Albuquerque class
Displacement:	1,811 tons standard, 2,100 tons normal load, 2,435 tons full load
Length:	99.6 m (327 ft)
Beam:	13.49 m (44.3 ft)
Draught:	3.81 m (12.5 ft)
Propulsion:	2 Parsons geared turbines; 4 Yarrow boilers, 8,000 shp Oil fuel: 600 tons
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h)
Range:	8.000 mi (12.875 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	191
Armament:	4 × 120 mm guns, 2 × 76 mm guns, 4 × 76 mm anti-aircraft guns, 2 × throwers for depth charges, Fitted to carry 40 mines
Aircraft carried:	1 (design, not carried in service)

NRP Bartolomeu Dias was a sloop of the Portuguese Navy. The ship was the second of the Afonso de Albuquerque-class sloop, which also included the lead ship of the class, the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque. These ships were classified, by the Portuguese Navy, as avisos coloniais de 1ª classe (colonial aviso 1st class) and were designed for colonial service in the Overseas territories of Portugal.

References

http://areamilitar.org/DIRECTORIO/NAV.aspx?NN=128