| HMS Onslow (G17) | |
|---|---|
 Onslow in 1943 | |
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | HMS Onslow |
| Ordered: | 3 September 1939 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Cost: | £416,942 |
| Laid down: | 1 July 1940 |
| Launched: | 31 March 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 8 October 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | April 1947 |
| Motto: |
Festina Lente (Latin:"Make Haste Slowly") |
| Honours and awards: |
Norway 1941-45 Arctic 1941-45 Atlantic 1942 Malta Convoys 1942 Barents Sea 1942 North Africa 1942 Normandy 1944 Biscay 1944 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Pakistan, 1949 |
| Badge: | On a Field White an Eagle Black preying on an anchor gold. |
| Career (Pakistan) |  |
| Name: | PNS Tippu Sultan |
| Namesake: | Tippu Sultan |
| Commissioned: | 1949 |
| Decommissioned: | 1979 |
| Out of service: | 1957 |
| Reinstated: | 1960 |
| Homeport: | Karachi |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1980 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | O-class destroyer flotilla leader |
| Displacement: | 1,550 long tons (1,570 t) |
| Length: | 345 ft (105 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × Parsons 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: | 176+ |
| Armament: |
• 4 × single 4.7-inch (120-mm) QF Mark IX guns on mounting CP Mk.XVIII |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: | Home Fleet |
| Commanders: | Captain Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke |
| Operations: |
Battle of the Barents Sea (1942) Battle of North Cape (1943) Exercise Tiger (1944) Normandy Landings (1944) |
HMS Onslow was an O-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy She was ordered from John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Glasgow on 3 September 1939. The ship was laid down on 1 July 1940 and launched on 31 March 1941. She was completed on 8 October 1941 at a cost of £416,942.[1]
Service history[]
Attached to the Home Fleet, Onslow served mostly as an escort to Arctic Convoys. She also saw detached service in the Mediterranean during "Operation Harpoon" in 1942, and in the English Channel before and after the Normandy landings in mid-1944. Her most notable action was at the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942, while escorting Convoy JW 51B to Russia. The convoy escorts held off attacks from the powerful German cruiser Admiral Hipper, with Onslow being heavily damaged and her Captain, Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke severely injured.
Decommissioned in 1947, the ship was procured by the Pakistan Navy in 1949 and commissioned as PNS Tippu Sultan.[2] She served in the Pakistan Navy until 1979.
See also[]
- Alan Ross
Notes[]
- ↑ In fact she remained the HMS Tippu Sultan for some years, prior to renaming later in 1952-53. See documents and photograph of Mr A.Salim Khan, Pakistan's First Charge d'Affaires to Japan, and his voyage on this ship from USA to Yokohama, in the Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan Collection/Papers, Accession Ref.No. 224-BMS, at the National Archives of Pakistan, Islamabad, website for further information http://www.nap.gov.pk
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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