HMS Cadiz (D79)
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.
PNS Khaibar
HMS Cadiz
626625
1092914502
1956
1946-04-12
PNS Khaibar sunk
268 killed
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Sinking of PNS Khaibar
1971-12-04
5
the Naval Conflict of Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
Destroyer PNS Khaibar was sunk
*2 × dual 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun
*14 × Bofors 40 mm gun
*10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
*1 × Squid mortar
268
Pakistan
United Kingdom
*2,315 tons standard
*3,290 tons full load
Sold to Pakistan 1956
Sunk during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Pennant number D79
1943-05-10
1944-09-16
PNS Khaibar
HMS Cadiz
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PNS Khaibar
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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.
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115519.2
9076
1943-05-10
115.5192
12.192
1944-09-16
Sunk duringIndo-Pakistani War of 1971
Sold to Pakistan 1956
62.968
1946-04-12