History
United Kingdom
Name	RFA Dewdale
Builder	Cammell Laird
Laid down	1939
Launched	17 February 1941
Commissioned	14 June 1941
Decommissioned	6 May 1959
Fate	Arrived Antwerp for scrapping, 23 December 1959
General characteristics
Class and type	Dale-class fleet tanker
Displacement	16,782 long tons (17,051 t)
Length	483 ft (147 m)
Beam	59 ft 6 in (18.14 m)
Draught	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Propulsion	1 × 8-cylinder B&W diesel, 502 nhp, 1 shaft
Speed	11.5 knots (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h)
Complement	70
Service record
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.

• Captain E.E. Sigwart (1969). Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Adlard Coles. ISBN 978-0-229-98581-4.
• Adams/Smith (2005). The Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-259-7.

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