Name Punjab Laid down 26 May 1941 Out of service 1949 Construction started 26 May 1941 Length 57 m Builder Mort's Dock | Ordered 24 January 1941 Commissioned 20 March 1942 Fate Scrapped Launched 10 October 1941 Draft 2.59 m | |
HMIS Punjab (J239) was a Bathurst class minesweeper which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.
History
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.
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.
After the independence of India and the subsequent partition, she was among the vessels transferred to Pakistan.
References
HMIS Punjab (J239) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA