HMIS Narbada
Sloop of the Royal Indian Navy and Pakistan Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMIS Narbada (U40) was a Modified Bittern class sloop, later known as the Black Swan class, which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.
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Crew of HMIS Narbada with blistered gun barrels following the bombardment of Myebon, Hunters Bay, Burma. | |
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Name | Narbada |
Namesake | Narmada River |
Ordered | 19 August 1940 |
Builder | Thornycroft |
Yard number | 1385 |
Laid down | 30 August 1941 |
Launched | 21 November 1942 |
Commissioned | 29 April 1943 |
Out of service | 1948 |
Honours and awards | Burma, 1944-45 |
Fate | Transferred to Pakistan, subsequently scrapped (1959) [1] |
Badge | On a Field Blue, rising from a base barry wavy of four, a trident gold, with a cobra proper entwined. |
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Type | Sloop-of-war |
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Length | 299 ft 6 in (91.29 m) |
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Draught | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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Range | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
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Narbada was transferred to Pakistan in 1948 after the Partition of India, and served as PNS Jhelum.