HMIS Madras (J237)
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Name | Madras |
Ordered | 24 September 1940 |
Builder | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
Laid down | 4 August 1941 |
Launched | 17 February 1942 |
Commissioned | 12 May 1942 |
Decommissioned | 1960 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bathurst-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 1,025 tons (full war load) |
Length | 186 ft (57 m) |
Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Draught | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
Propulsion | Triple expansion, 2 shafts. 2,000 hp |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Sensors and processing systems | Type 128 asdic |
Armament | 1 × 12-pounder gun or 1 × 4 inchgun, 1 × 40 mm Bofors gun, 2-3 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns, up to 40 depth charges |
HMIS Madras (J237) was a Bathurst-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.[1]
History
[edit]HMIS Madras was ordered in 1940, and built at Cockatoo Docks in Australia. She was commissioned in 1942 into the Eastern Fleet. She escorted a number of convoys until the end of the war.[2][3][4][5]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ "HMIS Madras (J 237) of the Royal Indian Navy - Indian Minesweeper of the Bathurst class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Eastern Fleet, Admiralty War Diary 1942". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "East Indies Fleet War Diary 1944". Naval-history.net. 30 December 1944. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "East Indies Fleet War Diary 1945". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.