HMS Charity (R29)

Career
HMS Charity engaged in Operation Fishnet off North Korea, 16 September 1952.
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft and Company and Company, Woolston, Southampton
Laid down:	9 July 1943
Launched:	30 November 1944
Commissioned:	16 November 1958
Out of service:	16 June 1958 InfoboxShipCareer
Renamed:	Shah Jehan (DD-962) 16 June 1958
Honours and awards:	Korean War
Fate:	Scrapped in 1971
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,710 tons (standard) 2,520 tons (full)
Length:	363 ft (111 m) o/a
Beam:	35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught:	10 ft (3.0 m) light 14.5 ft (4.4 m) full
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 (2,600 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement:	186
Armament:	4 x QF 4.5 in (113 mm) 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

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Charity.

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 Pakistan Navy via the United States Navy on 16 June 1958 and renamed Shah Jehan (DD-962).^[1] She was modernized by J. Samuel White in Cowes, 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 badly damaged in missile attacks during the 1971 India Pakistan war and later scrapped in 1982.

References

^ Gardiner, Robert; Friedman, Norman. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870219235.

C-class destroyer (1943)

Royal Navy

Ca- class	Caesar · Cambrian · Caprice · Carron · Carysfort · Cassandra · Cavalier · Cavendish

Ch- class	Chaplet · *Charity* · Chequers · Cheviot · Chevron · Chieftain · Childers · Chivalrous

Co- class	Cockade · Comet · Comus · Concord · Consort · Constance · Contest · Cossack

Cr- class	Creole · Crescent · Crispin · Cromwell · Crown · Croziers · Crusader · Crystal

Other operators

Royal Canadian Navy	Crescent · Crusader

Royal Norwegian Navy	Bergen (ex-Cromwell) · Oslo (ex-Crown) · Stavanger (ex-Crystal) · Trondheim (ex-Croziers)

Pakistan Navy	Alamgir (ex-Creole) · Jahangir (ex-Crispin) · *Shah Jehan* (ex-Charity) · Taimur (ex-Chivalrous)

Preceded by: W and Z classes · Followed by: Weapon class
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