HMS Onslaught during the Second World War
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Onslaught |
Ordered | 3 September 1939 |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan |
Laid down | 14 January 1941 |
Launched | 9 October 1941 |
Commissioned | 19 June 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number: G04 later D04 |
Fate | Transferred to Pakistan, 6 March 1951 |
Pakistan | |
Name | Tughril |
Acquired | 6 March 1951 |
Identification | Pennant number F204 changed to 261 in 1963 |
Fate | Scrapped 1977 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | O-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,610 long tons (1,640 t) (standard) |
Length | 345 ft (105.2 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 35 ft (10.7 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
Range | 3,850 nmi (7,130 km; 4,430 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 176+ |
Armament |
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HMS Onslaught was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which entered service in 1941. She was originally to have been named Pathfinder, but this was changed during construction. She was adopted by the Isle of Wight as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942. After the Second World War she was sold to Pakistan and scrapped in 1977.