PNS Tariq (D-181)
Tariq (DDG 181) (front of USS Pearl Harbor, the last ship in the background) on the fourth row of the formation led by USS Ingraham, participating in the naval drill in the Mediterranean Sea in 2005. | |
| History | |
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| Pakistan | |
| Name | PNS Tariq |
| Namesake | Tariq ibn Ziyad |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotland |
| Yard number | 1008 |
| Laid down | 1 September 1971 |
| Sponsored by | Benazir Bhutto |
| Acquired | 28 July 1993 |
| Recommissioned | 1 January 1993 |
| Decommissioned | 5 August 2023 |
| In service | 1993–2023 |
| Refit | 1993 |
| Homeport | Naval Base Karachi |
| Identification | Pennant number: D-181 |
| Fate | Retired |
| Status | Decommissioning; currently undergoing renovation works for display as a museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Lynx HAS.3 helicopter |
| Aviation facilities | Flight deck and hangar |
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PNS Tariq (DDG-181) was the lead ship of the Tariq-class destroyers in the Surface Command of the Pakistan Navy that served in the military service from 1993 until 2023. Prior to being commissioned in the Pakistan Navy, she served in the Royal Navy, as general purpose frigate HMS Ambuscade.
Designed and constructed by Yarrow Shipbuilders, Ltd. at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1975, she underwent an extensive modernization and mid-life upgrade program by the KSEW Ltd. at the Naval Base Karachi in 1998–2002.
Tariq was decommissioned on 6 August 2023, alongside plans to return her to the United Kingdom for conversion to a museum ship.