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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 QF 4 in gun Mk.V on mounting HA Mk.III
1 x quad tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX
1 x quad QF 2 pdr "pom-pom" mount Mk.VII
Up to 6 x single 20 mm Oerlikon guns
4 x throwers and 2 x racks for 70 depth charges
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| Motto: |
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 torpedo from the German submarine U-457 south west of Bear Island.
- On 26 January 1944, under Lt.Cdr. R.F. Leonard picked up survivors from the British merchant Fort Bellingham that was sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine U-957 in the Barents Sea north of North Cape.
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