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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bathurst-class corvette}}<br />
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|image=HMIS Punjab 1942.jpg<br />
|image_caption=''Punjab'' in 1942<br />
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|country=India<br />
|flag={{shipboxflag|British India|naval-1928}}<br />
|name=''Punjab''<br />
|ordered=24 January 1941<br />
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|builder=[[Mort's Dock]]<br />
|laid_down=26 May 1941<br />
|launched=10 October 1941<br />
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|commissioned=20 March 1942<br />
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|out_of_service=1949<br />
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|fate=Scrapped<br />
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|class={{sclass|Bathurst|minesweeper|1}}<br />
|displacement=1,025&nbsp;tons (full war load)<br />
|length={{convert|186|ft|m|abbr=on}} <br />
|beam={{convert|31|ft|m|abbr=on}} <br />
|draught={{convert|8.5|ft|m|abbr=on}} <br />
|propulsion=Triple expansion, 2 shafts. {{cvt|2,000|hp|lk=in}}<br />
|speed={{convert|15|kn}}<br />
|range=<br />
|complement=85<br />
|sensors=Type 128 asdic<br />
|armament=1 × [[QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun|12-pounder gun]] or 1 × 4&nbsp;inchgun, 1 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm Bofors gun]], 2-3 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm Oerlikon guns]], up to 40 [[depth charge]]s<br />
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'''HMIS ''Punjab'' (J239)''' was a {{Sclass|Bathurst|minesweeper}} which served in the [[Royal Indian Navy]] (RIN) during [[World War II]].<ref name=u-punjab>{{Cite web|url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3744.html|title = HMIS Punjab (J 239) of the Royal Indian Navy - Indian Minesweeper of the Bathurst class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
HMIS ''Punjab'' was ordered in 1941, and built by [[Mort's Dock]]. She was commissioned in 1942, into the [[Eastern Fleet]]. She escorted a number of convoys until the end of the war.<ref name=nh-1942>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1942b.htm|title = Eastern Fleet, Admiralty War Diary 1942}}</ref><ref name=nh-1943b>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1943b.htm|title = Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943}}</ref><ref name=nh-1944>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1944-11.htm|title=East Indies Fleet War Diary 1944}}</ref><ref name=nh-1945>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1945.htm|title=East Indies Fleet War Diary 1945}}</ref><br />
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In July 1945, in support of the planned Allied amphibious landings in Malaya, ''Punjab'' with other RIN and Royal Navy vessels conducted minesweeping operations off [[Phuket (city)|Phuket]].<ref name=nh-squirrel>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-22MS-Algerine-Squirrel.htm|title=HMS Squirrel, minesweeper}}</ref><br />
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After the [[independence of India]] and the subsequent [[Partition of India|partition]], she was among the vessels transferred to Pakistan.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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{{Bathurst class corvette}}<br />
{{Corvettes of the Indian Navy}}<br />
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[[Category:Bathurst-class corvettes of the Royal Indian Navy]]<br />
[[Category:Minesweepers of the Pakistan Navy]]<br />
[[Category:1941 ships]]</div>Ptamansamrat