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fighting ships of the world

ROYAL INDIAN MARINE (INDIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWI auxiliary patrol vessels

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions (LppxB), m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Lady Fraser 14.3.1908 // mid-1917 Fairfield, Govan, UK 1669 86.0x11.6 12.5 2VTE   stricken 1919
Mayo 23.9.1896 // mid-1917 Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK 1778 85.6x11.6   1VTE   sunk 8.9.1916

100 - 1000 BRT:

miscellaneous patrol vessels

Bahrein (,, 5.1915 - 1919); Bhamo (1896, 255, mid-1917 - 1919); Elephanta (,, mid-1917 - 1919); Sladen (1886, 270, mid-1917 - 1919); Azerbaijan (,, 10.1918 - 11.1919)

Project history: merchant vessels converted to armed boarding steamers. They were employed on examination duties at sea for the purpose of enforcing the naval blockade.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. Mayo was sunk 8.9.1916 by German submarine.

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