HMIS Clive

HMIS Clive (L79) was a sloop, commissioned in 1920 into the Royal Indian Marine (RIM).[1][2]

History
NameClive
BuilderWilliam Beardmore and Company
Launched10 December 1919
Commissioned20 April 1920
Decommissioned1947
FateScrapped 1947
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

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. 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.

References
  • 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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