- Service history Second World War service Postwar service
- Notes
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Offa | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered=3 September 1939 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= 15 January 1940 | Ship launched= 11 March 1941 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 20 September 1941 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= Transferred to Pakistan, 30 November 1949 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=Pakistan | Pakistan|naval}} | Ship name= Tariq | Ship namesake= | Ship acquired=30 November 1949 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification=pennant number: G29 | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Scrapped 1959 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= O-class destroyer | Ship tonnage= | 1540|LT|t|abbr=on}} | Ship tons burthen= | 345|ft|m|abbr=on}} o/a | 35|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 13|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | 40,000|shp|lk=in|abbr=on}}- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shafts
| 37|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} | 3850|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|20|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} | Ship endurance=472 tons oil | Ship boats= | Ship complement= 175+ | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) Mark IX guns on mounting CP Mk.XVIII- 1 × single QF {{convert|4|inch|mm|adj=on}} gun Mk.V on mounting HA Mk.III
- 1 × quad QF 2-pdr (40-mm) "pom-pom" mount Mk.VII
- 6 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- 1 × quad {{convert|21|in|mm|adj=on}} torpedo tubes for Mk.IX torpedoes
- 4 × throwers and 2 × racks for 70 depth charges
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}} | HMS Offa was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which entered service in 1941 and was scrapped in 1959. Service historySecond World War serviceDuring November 1941 Offa was part of the escort of Convoy PQ 4, the fifth of the Arctic Convoys of the Second World War. The convoy sailed from Hvalfjord, Iceland on 17 November 1941 and arrived at Arkhangelsk on 28 November 1941.[1] On 14 September 1942 Offa (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Ewing) picked up survivors from the British tanker {{MV|Atheltemplar||2}} which had been damaged by a torpedo from the {{GS|U-457||6}} south west of Bear Island. On 26 January 1944, under Lt.Cdr. R.F. Leonard Offa picked up survivors from the British merchant {{SS|Fort Bellingham||2}} that was sunk by a torpedo from the {{GS|U-957||6}} in the Barents Sea north of North Cape. Postwar service{{other ships|PNS Tariq}}In 1946 Offa served as a target ship for submarines, until being placed in reserve at Devonport in February 1948.[2] In April 1948 she was refitted at Devonport and on 30 November 1949 she was transferred to Pakistan and renamed Tariq. She was returned to the Royal Navy at Portsmouth in July 1959. She was then scrapped, arriving at Sunderland on 13 October 1959.[3] Notes1. ^{{cite book|first=Richard |last=Woodman |title=Arctic Convoys 1941-1945 |date=1994 |isbn=0-7195-5752-6}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Critchley |first=Mike |title=British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers |publisher=Maritime Books |location=Liskeard, UK |date=1982 |isbn=0-9506323-9-2 |pages=14}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/pakistan_navy.htm |title=Pakistan Navy |publisher=battleships-cruisers.co.uk |accessdate=4 April 2015}}
References- {{colledge}}
- {{cite book|last1=Connell|first1=G. G.|title=Arctic Destroyers: The 17th Flotilla|year=1982|publisher=William Kimber|location=London|isbn=0-7183-0428-4}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=John|title=Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Windsor, UK|year=2001|isbn=978-0-9560769-0-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=2006|isbn=1-86176-137-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|authorlink=Henry Trevor Lenton|title=British & Empire Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Raven|first=Alan|last2=Roberts|first2=John |title=War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes|publisher=Bivouac Books|location=London|year=1978|isbn=0-85680-010-4}}
- {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2}}
- {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War 2|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland}}
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