HMS Onslaught (G04)

	HMS Onslaught during the Second World War
History
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	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers ; 40,000 shp (29,828 kW);
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	4 × single QF 4.7 in (120 mm) guns ; 1 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) AA gun ; 1 × quad 2 pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA gun; 4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns; 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes ; 4 × throwers and 2 × racks for 70 depth charges ; 2 × Squid ASW Mortars (after 1957);

Last updated October 22, 2024

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.

Service history

Second World War service

On 19 June 1942 Onslaught was commissioned for service in the 17th Destroyer Flotilla, as part of the Home Fleet. She took part in convoy escort duties throughout the war, including the Arctic convoys and the Battle of the Atlantic.^[1] She also undertook patrol duties in the English Channel during the Normandy landings in 1944.

Postwar service

Onslaught remained in commission after VJ Day and in September 1945 was deployed for training duties at Portsmouth Gunnery School, HMS Excellent. In December she was detached to take part in Operation Deadlight, the destruction of surrendered U-boats in the Northwestern Approaches. Between 1946 and 1949 she was used as a submarine target ship in the Clyde. The ship was paid off early in 1950 and put on the Disposal List.

Pakistan service

She was transferred to the Pakistan Navy on 3 March 1951 and renamed PNS Tughril.^[2] In 1957 the ship was converted at Liverpool to a Type 16 anti-submarine frigate and remained on the Active List until 1975.^[3] She was scrapped in 1977.

Notes

↑ "HMS Onslaught (G04) – O-class destroyer". naval-history.net. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
↑ Blackman, Raymond V B (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. p. 195.
↑ Critchley, Mike (1982). British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. p. 16. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2.

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[1] "HMS Onslaught (G04) – O-class destroyer". naval-history.net. Retrieved 4 April 2015.

[2] Blackman, Raymond V B (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. p. 195.

[3] Critchley, Mike (1982). British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. p. 16. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2.

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History
HMS Onslaught during the Second World War
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	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 40,000 shp (29,828 kW)
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	4 × single QF 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 1 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) AA gun 1 × quad 2 pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA gun 4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 4 × throwers and 2 × racks for 70 depth charges 2 × Squid ASW Mortars (after 1957)