HMIS Tir
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History | |
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Name | Bann |
Namesake | River Bann |
Builder | Charles Hill & Sons |
Laid down | 18 June 1942 |
Launched | 29 December 1942 |
Commissioned | 7 May 1943 |
Decommissioned | 3 December 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K256 |
Fate | Transferred to the Royal Indian Navy |
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Namesake | Hindi तीर, "arrow"[1] |
Acquired | 3 December 1945 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1977 |
Identification | Pennant number: K256 |
Fate | Scrapped 1979 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
Speed |
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Range | 440 long tons (450 t; 490 short tons) oil fuel; 7,200 nautical miles (13,334 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 107 |
Armament |
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HMIS Tir was a River-class frigate of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN). She was acquired from the Royal Navy where she served as HMS Bann during World War II. She was commissioned into the RIN in December 1945.
She was converted into a midshipman's training ship in Bombay in 1948. After the Indian independence she was inducted into the Indian Navy as INS Tir. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[2]
She was decommissioned in 1977. An oil painting of the ship hangs at the Indian Naval Headquarters in New Delhi.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Chaudhury, Dipanjan Roy (5 October 2022). "Indian Navy ships visit Kuwait pushing defence ties" – via The Economic Times - The Times of India.
- ^ Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
- ^ "INS Tir". bharat-rakshak.com. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
Publications
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.