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CLIVE sloop (1920)

Clive 1937

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Clive (RIM) L79, U79 522 Beardmore, Dalmuir   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 sets 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 and yacht built for Indian Government, converted to sloop in the mid-1930s

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.

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

Clive

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