Name RFA Dewdale Commissioned 14 June 1941 Construction started 1939 Length 147 m Builder Cammell Laird | Laid down 1939 Decommissioned 6 May 1959 Launched 1941 Draft 8.38 m | |
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Fate Arrived Antwerp for scrapping, 23 December 1959 Class and type Dale-class fleet tanker Operations World War II, Operation Torch, Operation Tiderace | ||
RFA Dewdale (A151) was a Dale-class 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 in 1943. Credited with shooting down two Ju 88s 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.
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