HMIS Clive

History
Indian Navy
Name	Clive
Builder	William Beardmore and Company
Launched	10 December 1919
Commissioned	20 April 1920
Decommissioned	1947
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
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
Beam	38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)
Draught	10 ft 4 in (3.15 m)
Installed power	1,700 shp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion	Geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 2 shafts
Speed	14.5 knots (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h)
Complement	111
Armament	2 × 4 in (100 mm) guns 2 × 2-pounder pom-poms

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

• Collins, J.T.E. The Royal Indian Navy, 1939–1945. Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War. New Delhi: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan), 1964.
• Parkes, Oscar. Jane's Fighting Ships 1931. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). ISBN 0-7153-5849-9.