HMS Offa (G29)

HMS Offa (G29) was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which entered service in 1941.

During November 1941 HMS Offa was part of Convoy PQ-4, the fifth of the Arctic Convoys of World War II. The convoy sailed from Hvalfjord, Iceland on 17 November 1941 and arrived at Arkhangelsk on 28 November 1941.

On 14 September 1942 HMS Offa (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Ewing) picked up survivors from the British tanker Atheltemplar damaged by a torpedo from the German submarine U-457 south west of Bear Island.

On 26 January 1944, under Lt.Cdr. R.F. Leonard Offa picked up survivors from the British merchant Fort Bellingham that was sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine U-957 in the Barents Sea north of North Cape.

On 30 November 1949 Offa was transferred to Pakistan and renamed Tariq. She was scrapped at Sunderland on 13 October 1959.