HMIS Clive

History
Name	Clive
Builder	William Beardmore and Company
Launched	10 December 1919
Commissioned	20 April 1920
Decommissioned	1947
Fate	Scrapped 1947
General characteristics [1]
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

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

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).
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