HMIS Cornwallis (L09)

History
United Kingdom
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
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:	255 ft 3 in (77.80 m) p/p 267 ft 9 in (81.61 m) o/a
Beam:	33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)
Draught:	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Propulsion:	1 × 4-cylinder triple expansion engine 2 × cylindrical boilers 1 screw
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

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. 

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Footnotes ↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Dhanush. ↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Shamsher. ↑ Renamed as INS Kukri post republic. ↑ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic. ↑ Renamed as INS Hooghly post republic. ↑ Renamed as INS Tir post republic. ↑ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978. ↑ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978. ↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Jhelum. ↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Sind. ↑ Renamed as INS Kaveri post republic. ↑ Renamed as INS Sutlej post republic. ↑ Renamed as INS Jumuna post republic. ↑ Renamed as INS Krisna post republic. ↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Karsaz.