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Name: GABBARD
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 02/02/1944
Launched: 16/03/1945
Completed: 10/12/1946
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1705
Dimensions: 2315disp - 3290disp, 379.0 x 40.3 x 12.8(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 50000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 34.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 2 x 4.5ins QF, 1 x 4.0ins QF guns, 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes, depth charges
History:
10/12/1946 British Royal Navy
1956 Government of Pakistan; renamed BADR
1986 Government of Pakistan - Maritime Security Agency; renamed INDUS
1989 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Battle Class (Group 1)


Above photo as GABBARD is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as GABBARD is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as GABBARD is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as BADR is courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily News, Saturday, 19/01/1957