HMS Offa (G29)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 3 Sep, 1939 | |
| Laid down: | 15 Jan, 1940 | |
| Launched: | 11 Mar, 1941 | |
| Commissioned: | 20 Sep, 1941 | |
| Fate: | Transferred to Pakistan Navy on 30 November 1949 being renamed Tariq. | |
| General Characteristics | ||
| Displacement: | 1,540 tons | |
| Length: | 345 feet o/a | |
| Beam: | 35 feet | |
| Draught: | 13.5 feet | |
| Propulsion: | 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp, 2 shafts | |
| Speed: | 37 knots | |
| Range: | 472 tons oil, 3,850 nm at 20 kt | |
| Complement: | 175+ | |
| Armament: | 4 x single 4.7 in guns QF Mark XII on mounting CP Mk.XVIII 1 x single 4 in gun QF Mk.V on mounting HA Mk.III |
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HMS Offa was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which entered service in 1941.
- During November 1941 HMS Offa was part of Convoy PQ-4, the fifth of the Arctic Convoys of World War II. The Convoy sailed from Hvalfjord, Iceland on 17 November 1941 and arrived at Archangelsk on 28 November 1941.[1]
- On 14 September 1942 HMS Offa (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Ewing) picked up survivors from the British tanker Atheltemplar damaged by a torpedoed from the German submarine U-457 south west of Bear Island.
- On 26 January 1944 HMS Offa (Lt.Cdr. R.F. Leonard) picked up survivors from the British marchant Fort Bellingham that was sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine U-957 in the Barents Sea north of North Cape.
- On 30 November 1949 she was transferred to Pakistan and renamed Tariq. She was then scrapped at Sunderland on 13 October 1959. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Richard Woodman, Arctic Convoys 1941-1945 , 1994, ISBN 0-7195-5752-6
- ^ Ex-British O class destroyers at battleships-cruisers.co.uk
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