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"Modified BITTERN" sloops (1941 - 1943)

Jumna 1945

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Jumna (RIM) U21, 1948- F21 1355 Denny, Dumbarton 2.1940 16.11.1940 5.1941 survey vessel 1957, stricken 1983
Sutlej (RIM) U95, 1948- F95 1354 Denny, Dumbarton 1.1940 1.10.1940 4.1941 survey vessel 1955, stricken 1983
Godavari (RIM) U52, 1948- F52 1386 Thornycroft, Woolston 10.1941 21.1.1943 6.1943 to Pakistan 10.1948 (سند [Sind])
Narbada (RIM) U40, 1948- F40 1385 Thornycroft, Woolston 8.1941 21.11.1942 4.1943 to Pakistan 10.1948 (جہلم [Jhelum])

 

Displacement standard, t

1300 - 1340

Displacement full, t

1735 - 1758

Length, m

84.1 pp 89.2 oa

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

3.33 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kn

19

Fuel, t

oil 370

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

Jumna, Sutlej: 3 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 4 - 12.7/62, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (80 - 88)

Godavari, Narbada: 3 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (80 - 88)

Sensors

Jumna, Sutlej: type 285, type 286 radars, type 127 sonar

Godavari, Narbada: type 271, type 285, type 291 radars, type 127 sonar

Complement

195

Project history: Really Egret design with little changed armament.

Modernizations: 1942-1944, Jumna: - 1 x 4 - 12.7/62; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1942-1944, Sutlej: - 1 x 4 - 12.7/62, Type 127 sonar; + 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, Type 144 sonar

1944-1945, Godavari: + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service: No significant events.

Sutlej 1946

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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