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  Ship Caption HMS ''Charity'' engaged in Operation Fishnet off North Korea , 16 September 1952
  Ship Builder John I Thornycroft And Company and Company, Woolston , Southampton
  Ship Laid Down 9 July 1943
  Ship Launched 30 November 1944
  Ship Commissioned 19 November 1945
  Ship Out Of Service 16 June 1958

Ship Information

  Ship Renamed ''Shah Jehan (DD-962)'' 16 June 1958
  Ship Fate Modernised and transferred to the Royal Pakistan Navy in 1958



Ship Information

  Ship Fate Scrapped in 1971
  Ship Commissioned 16 November 1958


  Ship Displacement 1,710 tons (standard) 2,520 tons (full)
  Ship Length 363&nbspft O/a (111&nbspm)
  Ship Beam 3575&nbspft (109&nbspm)
  Ship Draught 10&nbspft light (305&nbspm), <br/> 145&nbspft full (442&nbspm)
  Ship Propulsion 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, <br/>Parsons geared steam turbines, <br/>40,000 shp, 2 shafts
  Ship Speed 37&nbspknots (6945&nbspkm/h)
  Ship Range 615 tons oil, 1,400&nbspnautical miles at 32&nbspknots
  Ship Complement 186
  Ship Honours Korean War