HMS Onslow (G17)

HMS Onslow was an O-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy She was ordered from John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Glasgow on 3 September 1939. The ship was laid down on 1 July 1940 and launched on 31 March 1941. She was completed on 8 October 1941 at a cost of £416,942.

Service history
Attached to the Home Fleet, Onslow served mostly as an escort to Arctic Convoys. She also saw detached service in the Mediterranean during "Operation Harpoon" in 1942, and in the English Channel before and after the Normandy landings in mid-1944. Her most notable action was at the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942, while escorting Convoy JW 51B to Russia. The convoy escorts held off attacks from the powerful GERMAN CRUISER Admiral Hipper, with Onslow being heavily damaged and her Captain, Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke severely injured.

Decommissioned in 1947, the ship was procured by the Pakistan Navy in 1949 and commissioned as PNS Tippu Sultan. She served in the Pakistan Navy until 1979.