HMS Cadiz (D79)
HMS Barfleur | |
| 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 |
| Home port | Karachi |
| Fate | Sunk during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Battle-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| 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 |
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| Service record | |
| Part of | 5th Destroyer Flotilla (UK) |
| Operations | Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
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.