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HMIS Clive

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History
NameClive
BuilderWilliam Beardmore and Company
Launched10 December 1919
Commissioned20 April 1920
Decommissioned1947
FateScrapped 1947
General characteristics [1]
Displacement2,050 long tons (2,083 t) standard
Length
  • 240 ft (73 m) p/p
  • 270 ft 8 in (82.50 m) o/a
Beam38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)
Draught10 ft 4 in (3.15 m)
Installed power1,700 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion
  • Geared steam turbines,
  • 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 2 shafts
Speed14.5 knots (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h)
Complement111
Armament

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

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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

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  1. ^ a b Parkes 1973, p. 96.
  2. ^ "HMIS Clive (L 79 / U 79) of the Royal Indian Navy". www.uboat.net.
  3. ^ "East Indies Fleet, Admiralty Diary Jan-March 1942". www.naval-history.net.
  4. ^ "Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943". www.naval-history.net.

References

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  • 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.