HMS Offa (G29)
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Offa |
| Ordered: | 3 September 1939 |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 15 January 1940 |
| Launched: | 11 March 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 20 September 1941 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Pakistan, 30 November 1949 |
| Career (Pakistan) |  |
| Name: | Tariq |
| Acquired: | 30 November 1949 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1959 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | O-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,540 long tons (1,560 t) |
| Length: | 345 ft (105 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Pearson geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 37 knots (43 mph; 69 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,850 nmi (7,130 km) at 20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 472 tons oil |
| Complement: | 175+ |
| Armament: |
• 4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) Mark IX guns on mounting CP Mk.XVIII |
HMS Offa (G29) 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 Arkhangelsk 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 Offa 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.
On 30 November 1949 Offa was transferred to Pakistan and renamed Tariq. She was scrapped at Sunderland on 13 October 1959.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Richard Woodman, Arctic Convoys 1941-1945 , 1994, ISBN 0-7195-5752-6
- ^ Ex-British O class destroyers at battleships-cruisers.co.uk
[edit] References
- Raven, Alan; Roberts, John (1978). War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes. London: Bivouac Books. ISBN 0-85680-010-4.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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