PNS Shah Jahan (DDG-186) was a Tariq-class destroyer in service with the Pakistan Navy since being recommissioned in 1994. Based on the British design, Type 21 frigate, she previously served in the Royal Navy as HMS Active as a general purpose frigate.[3]

PNS Shah Jahan in the Indian Ocean in 2002.
History
Pakistan
Name	PNS Shah Jahan
Namesake	Shah Jahan[1]
Builder	Vosper Thornycroft in England
Laid down	23 July 1971
Launched	23 November 1972
Recommissioned	23 September 1994
In service	1994–2021
Out of service	1 January 2021
Homeport	Naval Base Karachi
Identification	Pennant number: D-186
Fate	Sunk as target on 12 January 2021
General characteristics
Class and type	Tariq-class frigate
Displacement	3,700 long tons (3,759 t) full load
Length	384 ft (117 m)
Beam	41 ft 9 in (12.73 m)
Draught	19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Propulsion	COGOG: 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines for cruising
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	192, 14 officers, 178 enlisted: contents [2]
Armament	1 × Vickers 4.5 in (114 mm)/55 Mk.8 AS/AA gun (25rds/min to 22 km/11.9nmi) 1 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × triple STWS-1 torpedo launchers (for Mk 46 LWTs) 2 × 4-cell Mk 141 launchers (for Harpoon SSMs) 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
Aircraft carried	1 × Lynx HAS.3 helicopter 1 × Camcopter S-100 UAV
Aviation facilities	Flight deck and hangar

In 1998–2008, the extensive engineering modernization and midlife upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi reclassified her status as guided missile destroyer.[4]

Service history

She was designed and constructed by the Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at Glasgow in Scotland, she was laid down on 30 October 1974, and was launched on 19 July 1978.[3] She eventually commissioned on 19 July 1978 in the Surface Fleet of the Royal Navy as HMS Active.[3] During her service with the Royal Navy, she was notable for her wartime operations during the Falklands War with Argentina.^: 104[5]

On 3 October 1994, she was purchased by Pakistan after the successful negotiation with the United Kingdom, along with PNS Tippu Sultan.^: 51[6]

Upon arriving in Karachi, she underwent an extensive modernization and mid-life upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002.[3]

Her wartime performance included in deployments in patrolling off the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea as well as deploying in the Mediterranean Sea when she was part of the multinational CTF-150.[7]

On 12 January 2021, Shah Jahan was sunk as a target by the Pakistan Navy during a live-fire drill in the North Arabian Sea.[8][9]

Gallery

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  USS Reuben James leads PNS Shahjahan and PNS Tippu Sultan in Exercise Inspired Siren in the Indian Ocean in 2002.
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  USS Rueben James, PNS Shahjahan and PNS Tippu Sultan in Exercise Inspired Siren in the Indian Ocean in 2002.
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  USS Rueben James, PNS Shahjahan and PNS Tippu Sultan in Exercise Inspired Siren in the Indian Ocean in 2002.
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  U.S. and Pakistan Navy personnel "Thumbs up" to his shipmates aboard PNS Shah Jahan in the Exercise Inspired Siren in the Indian Ocean in 2002.
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  PNS Shahjahan, with PNS Tariq, participating in the Exercise Inspired Siren in the Indian Ocean in 2005.
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  German Navy's Rear Admiral Heinrich Lange speaks during the ceremony held for CTF-151 aboard PNS Shahjahan in 2006.
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  In a mock exercise, U.S. Navy's SEALs with Pakistan SSGN conducting the VBBS drill aboard PNS Shahjahan in the Indian Ocean in 2007.
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  PNS Shahjahan, transiting with USS Mobile Bay in 2011.
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  PNS Shah Jahan making manoeuvers in the Indian Ocean in 2011.
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  An Alouette III assigned to PNS Shah Jahan lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in 2011.
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  The torpedo launching system installed in PNS Shah Jahan in 2018.

References

External links

• "PNS Tariq". www.paknavy.gov.pk. ISPR Navy. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
• "Tariq (Amazon) Class (TYPE 21) (DD/FF) « PakDef Military Consortium". pakdef.org.