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'''HMIS ''Cornwallis'' (L09)''' was an {{sclass|Aubrietia|sloop|0}} [[Sloop-of-war|sloop]], originally built during [[World War I]] and commissioned as '''HMS ''Lychnis''''' in the [[Royal Navy]] (RN) in 1917. She was transferred to the [[Royal Indian Marine]] (RIM) and commissioned as ''Cornwallis'' in 1921.<ref name=ub-cornwallis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3873.html|title=HMIS Cornwallis (L 09 / U 09) of the Royal Indian Navy - Indian Sloop of the Cornwallis class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net}}</ref><br />
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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 '''U09''' 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.<br />
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==History==<br />
HMS ''Lychnis'' was ordered in December 1916 as a part of the Emergency War Programme of World War I from [[William Hamilton and Company]], [[Port Glasgow]] and was launched on 21 August 1917.<ref name="Ditt p95">Dittmar and Colledge 1972, p. 95.</ref> She commissioned in 1917. She is credited with sinking the German submarine {{SMU|U-64}} by depth charging and shelling on 17 June 1918 in the Mediterranean Sea.<ref>{{cite Uboat.net<br />
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Following the end of the war, she was transferred to the Royal Indian Marine and commissioned as HMIS ''Cornwallis''. In 1934, RIM was renamed Royal Indian Navy. During World War II, she was a part of the [[Eastern Fleet]]. She escorted numerous convoys in the [[Indian Ocean]] 1942-45.<ref name=nh-1942>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1942.htm|title=East Indies Fleet, Admiralty Diary Jan-March 1942}}</ref><ref name=nh-1943a>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1943a.htm|title = Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943}}</ref><br />
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She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1946, soon after the end of the war.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book|last=Collins|first=J.T.E.|title=The Royal Indian Navy, 1939–1945|series=Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War|year=1964|publisher=Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan)|location=New Delhi|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html}}<br />
*{{cite book|last1=Dittmar|first1=F.J.|last2=Colledge|first2=J.J.|title=British Warships 1914–1919|year=1972|publisher=Ian Allan|location=Shepperton, UK|isbn=0-7110-0380-7}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Kemp|first=Paul|title=U-Boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World Wars |year=1997 |publisher=Arms & Armour Press |location=London |isbn=1-85409-321-5}}<br />
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