Drawing by: WhyMe. We are obliged to him.
Goa lying South West India have been for 4½ centuries a Portuguese colony with an own naval shipbuilding industry. Afonso de Albuquerque defeated the king of the Bijapur dynasty in 1510 and Goa became a colony playing an important rule in the Carreira da India, the shipping route between Portugal and India as being like Cochin an end or start point. Despite several efforts in the 17th century didn’t ‘succeed the Dutch East India Company in capturing Goa. When the former British colony India became in 1947 an independent state Goa wasn’t transferred but remained Portuguese. The result was a ‘war’ in 1961 between both countries ending an occupying of Goa by India. In advance a territory Goa got in 198 the status of a state within India.
In 1961 was a Portuguese warship destroyed which was name after the original conqueror of Goa! She was an aviso coloniais de 1a class also referred to as a gunboat and after the Second World War even as frigates of the Afonso de Albuquerque-class. This class was mainly designed for supporting the landing of troops or troops all ready operating on land. In the morning of 18 December 1961 she was attacked by the Indian frigates Betwa and Beas which entered the harbour of Goa. When her engines and boilers were destroyed she was deliberately set aground near Dona Paula by her own crew which keep on fighting until 14.10 using her as a battery. The next day was the crew taken prisoner. Five Portuguese crewmembers were killed in the ‘battle’ and 13 including her commanding officer captain Cunha Aragão were wounded. A year later was the wreck towed to Bombay and since then some parts of her are exhibited while the remains were sold to be broken up.
She was launched in 1934 at Hawthorn-Leslie and commissioned 28 May of the same year.
With a displacement of 1,811 tons standard, 2,100 tons normal load and 2,435 tons full load with as dimensions 99,6 x 13,49 x 3,81 metres. The two Parsons geared turbines combined with oil-fired four Yarrow boilers supplied 8,000 ship allowing a speed of 21 knots. The fuel capacity of 600 tons made with a speed of 10 knots a range of 7,000 nautical miles possible. Her crew numbered 191 men. The armament consisted of 4-120mm guns, 4-76mm of which two used as anti aircraft guns and 2 depth charger launchers. She was able to carry 40 mines and an aircraft with her.
Goa lying South West India have been for 4½ centuries a Portuguese colony with an own naval shipbuilding industry. Afonso de Albuquerque defeated the king of the Bijapur dynasty in 1510 and Goa became a colony playing an important rule in the Carreira da India, the shipping route between Portugal and India as being like Cochin an end or start point. Despite several efforts in the 17th century didn’t ‘succeed the Dutch East India Company in capturing Goa. When the former British colony India became in 1947 an independent state Goa wasn’t transferred but remained Portuguese. The result was a ‘war’ in 1961 between both countries ending an occupying of Goa by India. In advance a territory Goa got in 198 the status of a state within India.
In 1961 was a Portuguese warship destroyed which was name after the original conqueror of Goa! She was an aviso coloniais de 1a class also referred to as a gunboat and after the Second World War even as frigates of the Afonso de Albuquerque-class. This class was mainly designed for supporting the landing of troops or troops all ready operating on land. In the morning of 18 December 1961 she was attacked by the Indian frigates Betwa and Beas which entered the harbour of Goa. When her engines and boilers were destroyed she was deliberately set aground near Dona Paula by her own crew which keep on fighting until 14.10 using her as a battery. The next day was the crew taken prisoner. Five Portuguese crewmembers were killed in the ‘battle’ and 13 including her commanding officer captain Cunha Aragão were wounded. A year later was the wreck towed to Bombay and since then some parts of her are exhibited while the remains were sold to be broken up.
She was launched in 1934 at Hawthorn-Leslie and commissioned 28 May of the same year.
With a displacement of 1,811 tons standard, 2,100 tons normal load and 2,435 tons full load with as dimensions 99,6 x 13,49 x 3,81 metres. The two Parsons geared turbines combined with oil-fired four Yarrow boilers supplied 8,000 ship allowing a speed of 21 knots. The fuel capacity of 600 tons made with a speed of 10 knots a range of 7,000 nautical miles possible. Her crew numbered 191 men. The armament consisted of 4-120mm guns, 4-76mm of which two used as anti aircraft guns and 2 depth charger launchers. She was able to carry 40 mines and an aircraft with her.
