HMS Cadiz (D79)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cadiz
Namesake	Raid on Cadiz (1587)
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down	10 May 1943
Launched	16 September 1944
Commissioned	12 April 1946
Out of service	Placed in Reserve, 1953
Identification	Pennant number D79
Fate	Sold to Pakistan 1956
Pakistan
Name	PNS Khaibar
Namesake	Battle of Khaybar (628)
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	2 × dual 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun 14 × Bofors 40 mm gun 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Squid mortar
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

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 Spanish 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.