HMIS Agra (T254)

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History
India
Name: Agra
Namesake: Agra, city in Northern India
Owner: Royal Indian Navy
Ordered: 29 July 1940
Builder: Hooghly Docking & Engineering Company Ltd. (Calcutta)
Laid down: 11 November 1940
Launched: 19 March 1942
Commissioned: 15 April 1942
Decommissioned: 1946
Fate: Sold 1948, scrapped February 1963
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: -class naval trawler
Type: Naval trawler
Displacement: 521 long tons (529 t)
Length: 160 ft 6 in (48.92 m)
Beam: 27 ft 1 in (8.26 m)
Draught: 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) (mean)
Propulsion: 1 triple expansion reciprocating engine, 1 shaft, 850 ihp (634 kW)
Speed: 12.5 knots (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h)
Complement: 33 (RIN 48)
Armament:

HMIS Agra (T254) was a minesweeping trawler of the Royal Indian Navy, one of twenty-two built to the design of the Royal Navy's Basset-class during the Second World War.[2] She was laid down in November 1940, and launched in April 1942, serving until her decommissioning in 1946.[3]

References[edit]

  1. Conway (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980). ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  2. Conway (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980). p. 54. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  3. "HMIS Agra (T 254) of the Royal Indian Navy - Indian MS Trawler of the Basset class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 13 July 2021.


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