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PNS Khaibar (1944)

HMS Barfleur
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Cadiz
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down: 10 May 1943
Launched: 16 September 1944
Commissioned: 12 April 1946
Identification: Pennant number D79
Fate: Sold to Pakistan 1956
Pakistan
Name: PNS Khaibar
Acquired: 1956
Homeport: Karachi
Fate: Sunk during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
General characteristics
Class and type: Battle-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 2,315 tons standard
  • 3,290 tons full load
Length: 379 ft (116 m)
Beam: 40 ft 3 in (12.27 m)
Draught: 15.3 ft (4.7 m)
Propulsion: 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 2 boilers, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 34 knots (63 km/h)
Range: 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 268
Armament:
Service record
Part of: 5th Destroyer Flotilla (UK)
Operations: Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Sinking of PNS Khaibar
Part of the Naval Conflict of Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
Date 4 December 1971
Location Arabian Sea
Result Destroyer PNS Khaibar was sunk
(Operation Trident)
Belligerents

 Pakistan


 Pakistan Navy

 India


 Indian Navy
Strength
PNS Khaibar (destroyer) INS Nirghat (missile boat)
Casualties and losses

PNS Khaibar sunk

268 killed
None

 Pakistan

 India

PNS Khaibar sunk

HMS Cadiz was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Battle of Cádiz, in which the French besieged the British- and Allied-controlled town in 1810, which was eventually lifted in 1812 after the French defeat at the Battle of Salamanca.

She was transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1956, and commissioned as PNS Khaibar. She was sunk off her home port of Karachi by the Indian Navy missile boat, INS Nirghat during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

Cadiz was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. She was launched on 16 September 1944 and commissioned on 12 April 1946.

Upon her commissioning, Cadiz joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Home Fleet. In 1947, Cadiz, along with her sister ship Sluys, escorted the aircraft carrier Vengeance to Norway, where the small group visited a variety of ports in the Scandinavian country. In 1950, Cadiz along with many other vessels of the Home Fleet, including three aircraft carriers and the battleship Vanguard, undertook a Spring Cruise, visiting the Mediterranean where they performed a number of naval exercises as well as visiting a variety of ports in the region. In 1953, Cadiz took part in the Coronation Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Cadiz was positioned in the middle of her sister-ships St. James and Solebay. In the same year, Cadiz was placed in Reserve, along with the rest of the ships in the 5th Destroyer Squadron.


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