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Name | Clive |
Builder | William Beardmore and Company |
Launched | 10 December 1919 |
Commissioned | 20 April 1920 |
Decommissioned | 1947 |
Fate | Scrapped 1947 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Displacement | 2,050 long tons (2,083 t) standard |
Length | |
Beam | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) |
Installed power | 1,700 shp (1,300 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14.5 knots (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h) |
Complement | 111 |
Armament |
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HMIS Clive (L79) was a sloop, commissioned in 1920 into the Royal Indian Marine (RIM).[1][2]
She served during World War II in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN), the successor to the RIM. Her pennant number was changed to U79 in 1940. Although originally built as a minesweeper, she was primarily used as a convoy escort during the war. She was scrapped soon after the end of the war.
History
[edit]HMIS Clive was ordered under the Emergency War Programme of World War I, she was completed after the end of the war. During World War II, she was a part of the Eastern Fleet. She escorted numerous convoys in the Indian Ocean 1942-45.[3][4]
She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1947, soon after the end of the war.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Parkes 1973, p. 96.
- ^ "HMIS Clive (L 79 / U 79) of the Royal Indian Navy". www.uboat.net.
- ^ "East Indies Fleet, Admiralty Diary Jan-March 1942". www.naval-history.net.
- ^ "Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943". www.naval-history.net.
References
[edit]- Collins, J.T.E. (1964), The Royal Indian Navy, Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War [1939–1945], New Delhi: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan) – via HyperWar Foundation
- Parkes, Oscar. Jane's Fighting Ships 1931. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). ISBN 0-7153-5849-9.