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Photographer:
jackosan [ View profile ]
Captured:
Jul 9, 1980
Location:
Karachi, Pakistan
Photo Category:
Destroyers
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Jul 14, 2022
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1,309 x 858

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Pakistan Navy destroyer “Alamgir” (front) triple-berthed with 2 other Pakistani warships at Karachi, 9th July 1980
Builder: Samuel White & Co., Cowes
Displacements: 1,710 standard, 2,545 full load
Length overall: 110.5 m
Draft: 5.2 m
Engines: Parsons geared turbines, 40,000 s.h.p., twin screw
Speed: 36.25 knots
Complement: 200
Laid down 3 August 1944
Commissioned into Britain's Royal Navy 14 October 1946 as C-class HMS “Creole” (R82, later D82)
Sold to Pakistan Navy on 29 February 1956; refitted by John I. Thorneycroft & Co., Southampton, with US funding. Transferred & renamed 20 June 1958
Sold for scrapping 1982.
The middle ship of the trio is PNS “Shah Jahan” and the inside one PNS “Babur” (see https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3445237)

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