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'''HMIS ''Clive'' (L79)''' was a [[sloop]], commissioned in 1920 into the [[Royal Indian Marine]] (RIM).<ref name="JFS31 p96"/><ref name=ub-clive>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3877.html |title=HMIS Clive (L 79 / U 79) of the Royal Indian Navy |website=www.uboat.net}}</ref> | '''HMIS ''Clive'' (L79)''' was a [[sloop of war|sloop]], commissioned in 1920 into the [[Royal Indian Marine]] (RIM).<ref name="JFS31 p96"/><ref name=ub-clive>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3877.html |title=HMIS Clive (L 79 / U 79) of the Royal Indian Navy |website=www.uboat.net}}</ref> | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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*Parkes, Oscar. ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1931''. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). {{ISBN|0-7153-5849-9}}. | *Parkes, Oscar. ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1931''. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). {{ISBN|0-7153-5849-9}}. | ||
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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) |
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| Speed: | 14.5 knots (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h) |
| Complement: | 111 |
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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]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
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