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ROYAL INDIAN MARINE (INDIA)

ESCORTS

CLIVE sloop (1920)

Clive 1937

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Clive L79, U79   Beardmore, Dalmuir, UK   10.12.1919 4.1920 sold 1947

 

Displacement standard, t

1748

Displacement full, t

2021

Length, m

80.0

Breadth, m

11.7

Draught, m

4.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Parsons steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, t

oil 199

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Complement

123

Project history: Dispatch vessel built for Indian Government but purchased by RIM and used as sloop.

Modernizations: mid-1930s: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 3 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

early 1940s: + 4 DCT, 2 DCR, type 121 or type 124 sonar

Naval service: No significant events.

Clive

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