HMIS Clive

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Flag of Imperial India.svgNaval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
NameClive
Builder William Beardmore and Company
Launched10 December 1919
Commissioned20 April 1920
Decommissioned1947
FateScrapped
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]

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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

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

  1. 1 2 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.

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