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HMS Onslaught (G 04)

Destroyer of the O class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassO 
PennantG 04 
Built byFairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland) 
Ordered3 Sep, 1939 
Laid down14 Jan, 1941 
Launched9 Oct, 1941 
Commissioned19 Jun, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to Pakistan on 6 March 1951 being renamed Tughril.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. William Halford Selby, RN
January 1942 – 14 February 1944
Promoted to Capt. on 31December 1943
DSC awarded on 9 February 1943

Cdr. The Hon. Anthony Pleydell-Bouverie, RN
14 February 1944 – 24 April 1945

Cdr. Reginald Trevor Paul, CBE, RN
24 April 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Onslaught is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 

Former nameHMS Pathfinder

Noteable events involving Onslaught include:

4 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-472 was sunk (or maybee scuttled by it's own crew) in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73.05N, 26.40E, by gunfire and rockets from the British destroyer HMS Onslaught (Cdr. the Hon. A. Pleydell-Bouverie, RN) and Swordfish aircraft (Sqdn. 816) of the British escort carrier HMS Chaser (Capt. H.V.P. McClintock, DSO, RN). (see map)

12 Jan, 1945
The British heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk (Capt. J.G.Y. Loveband, RN with Rear-Admiral R.R. McGrigor, CB, DSO, RN aboard) and the light cruiser HMS Bellona (Capt. C.F.W. Norris, DSO, RN) escorted by the destroyers HMS Onslow (Capt. H.W.S. Browning, OBE, RN), HMS Orwell (Lt.Cdr. J.R. Gower, DSC, RN) and HMS Onslaught (Cdr. the Hon. A. Pleydell-Bouverie, RN) attack a German convoy of Egersund, Norway. Two German merchants, the Bahia Camarones (8551 GRT) and the Charlotte (4404 GRT) and the minelayer M 273 were sunk.


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