HMS Charity (R29)
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HMS Charity (R29) was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company of Woolston in Southampton on 9 July 1943. She was launched on 30 November 1944 and commissioned on 19 November 1945.
She fought in the Korean War.
She was sold to the United States Navy on 16 June 1958 and renamed Shah Jehan (DD-962). She was modernized in England under a US contract and transferred to the Royal Pakistan Navy as part of the Military Aid Program on 16 December 1958 where she served as Shah Jahan (literally, "Emperor of the World", after Shah Jahan). She was scrapped in 1971.