HMIS Cornwallis (L09)
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Lychnis |
| Ordered: | December 1916 |
| Builder: | William Hamilton and Company |
| Launched: | 21 August 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 1917 |
| Out of service: | 1921 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Indian Marine |
 British India
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| Name: | Cornwallis |
| Acquired: | 1921 (transferred from the Royal Navy) |
| Out of service: | 1946 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Aubretia-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,250 tons |
| Length: | |
| Beam: | 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | Designed for 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h) at 2,500 ihp (1,900 kW), but actually made 15-16.5 knots with this power. Required 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW) for 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h). |
| Range: | 205 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 80 men |
| Armament: | Designed to mount 3 × 12-pounder guns and 2 × 3-pounder AA, but had 2 × 4 inch gun, 1 × 3-pounder AA and depth charge throwers |
HMIS Cornwallis (L09) was an Aubretia-class sloop, originally built during World War I and commissioned as HMS Lychnis in the Royal Navy (RN) in 1917. She was transferred to the Royal Indian Marine (RIM) and commissioned as Cornwallis in 1921.[1]
She served during World War II in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN), the successor to the RIM. Her pennant number was changed to U09 in 1940. Although originally built as a minesweeper, she was primarily used as a convoy escort during the war. She was scrapped soon after the end of the war.
History
HMS Lychnis was ordered in December 1916 as a part of the Emergency War Programme of World War I from William Hamilton and Company, Port Glasgow and was launched on 21 August 1917.[2] She commissioned in 1917.
Following the end of the war, she was transferred to the Royal Indian Marine and commissioned as HMIS Cornwallis. In 1934, RIM was renamed Royal Indian Navy. During World War II, she was a part of the Eastern Fleet. She escorted numerous convoys in the Indian Ocean 1942-45.[3][4]
She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1946, soon after the end of the war.
Notes
- ↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3873.html
- ↑ Dittmar and Colledge 1972, p. 95.
- ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1942.htm
- ↑ http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1943a.htm
References
- Collins, J.T.E. (1964). The Royal Indian Navy, 1939–1945. Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War. New Delhi: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan).
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7.