2011-03-29

HMIS Cornwallis (L09)

HMIS Cornwallis (L09)

Career Royal Navy
Class and type: Aubretia class sloop
Name: HMS 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
Career Indian Navy
Name: HMIS Cornwallis
Acquired: 1921 (transferred from the Royal Navy)
Out of service: 1946
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Type: Minesweeper
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-pdr guns and 2 × 3-pdr AA, but had 2 × 4 inch gun, 1 × 3-pdr 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.

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 1916 and commissioned in 1917 as a part of the Emergency War Programme of World War I.

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.

She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1946, soon after the end of the war.

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