Hms_charity_(r29)

HMS Charity engaged in Operation Fishnet off North Korea, 16 September 1952.
Career
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft and Company and Company, Woolston, Southampton
Laid down:	9 July 1943
Launched:	30 November 1944
Commissioned:	19 November 1945
Out of service:	16 June 1958
Career
Renamed:	Shah Jehan (DD-962) 16 June 1958
Fate:	Modernised and transferred to the Royal Pakistan Navy in 1958
Career
Commissioned:	16 November 1958
Fate:	Scrapped in 1971
Status:	Unknown
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,710 tons (standard) 2,520 tons (full)
Length:	363 ft o/a (111 m)
Beam:	35.75 ft (10.9 m)
Draught:	10 ft light (3.05 m), 14.5 ft full (4.42 m)
Propulsion:	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp, 2 shafts
Speed:	37 knots (69.45 km/h)
Range:	615 tons oil, 1,400 nautical miles at 32 knots
Complement:	186
Armament:	4 x QF 4.5 in L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V 2 x Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV, or; 4 x QF 2 pdr L/39 guns Mk.VIII on quad mount Mk.VII (Caprice only) 4 x anti-aircraft mountings; Bofors 40 mm, single mount Mk.III QF 2 -pdr Mk.VIII, single mount Mk.XVI Oerlikon 20 mm, single mount P Mk.III Oerlikon 20 mm, twin mount Mk.V 2 x pentuple (Ca) / quadruple (Ch, Co, Cr) tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges
Honours and awards:	Korean War

HMS Charity (R29) was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company of Woolston, Southampton on 9 July 1943. She was launched on 30 November 1944 and commissioned on 19 November 1945.

She served during the Korean War.

She was sold to the United States Navy on 16 June 1958 and renamed Shah Jehan (DD-962). She was modernized in England under a US contract and transferred to the Royal Pakistan Navy as part of the Military Aid Program on 16 December 1958 where she served as Shah Jahan (literally, "Emperor of the World", after Shah Jahan). She was scrapped in 1971.

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