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HMIS Clive

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Name
  
Clive

Decommissioned
  
1947

Launched
  
10 December 1919

Commissioned
  
20 April 1920

Fate
  
Scrapped

Draft
  
3.15 m

Displacement
  
2,050 long tons (2,083 t) standard

Length
  
240 ft (73 m) p/p 270 ft 8 in (82.50 m) o/a

Builder
  
William Beard and Company

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

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.

She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1947, soon after the end of the war.

References

HMIS Clive Wikipedia