RFA Dewdale (A151)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	1939. Cammell Laird
Launched:	1941 -
Commissioned:	14 June 1941
Decommissioned:	6 May 1959. Laid up at Devonport.
Fate:	Arrived Antwerp 23 December 1959 for scrapping.
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement:	16782 tons full load
Length:	483'00"
Beam:	59'06"
Draught:	27'06.25"
Propulsion:	1 x 8 cyl B & W diesel. 502 nhp. One shaft.
Speed:	11.5 knots
Range:
Complement:	70
Armament:
Aircraft:	Nil
Motto:

RFA Dewdale (A151) was a fleet tanker and landing ship (gantry) of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Taken over by the Admiralty and completed as a Landing Ship Gantry carrying 15 LCMs with accommodation for 150 military personnel. Her landing craft were in the first assault waves during the North African Landings,1943. Credited with shooting down two JU88s at Bougie, she was later damaged by bombing at Algiers and returned to UK for repairs in October 1944. Later in the war she served in the eastern Mediterranean and with the Eastern Fleet during the Malaya Landings. Reconverted to a tanker at Portsmouth by March 1947, she resumed freighting duties before being sold to Netransmar Cie.SA for scrap in 1959.