HMIS Cauvery

History

India
Name:	Cauvery
Namesake:	Kaveri River
Ordered:	10 September 1941
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down:	28 October 1942
Launched:	15 June 1943
Commissioned:	26 August 1943
Decommissioned:	1977
Renamed:	Kaveri
Honours and awards:	Burma, 1944-45
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Black Swan-class sloop
Displacement:	1,250 tons original 1,350 tons modified
Length:	299 ft 6 in (91.29 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) original 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) modified
Draught:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Propulsion:	Geared turbines, 2 shafts: 3,600 hp (2.68 MW) (original) 4,300 hp (3.21 MW) (modified)
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h) (original) 20 knots (37 km/h) (modified)
Range:	7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h)
Complement:	180 (original) 192 (modified)
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 272 surface radar Type 285 fire-control radar
Armament:	6 × QF 4 in (102 mm) Mk XVI AA guns (3 × 2) 4 × 2-pounder AA pom-pom 4 × 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) AA machine guns (original) 12 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA (6 × 2) (modified)

HMIS Cauvery, pennant number U10, was a Black Swan-class sloop which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.

History

HMIS Cauvery was ordered in 1941 as a part of the 1940 Build Program for the Royal Indian Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders, Limited and commissioned in October 1943.

With World War II underway, she was immediately deployed as a convoy escort in the Home Fleet. In February 1944, she was transferred to the Eastern Fleet. En route, she continued to escort various convoys, until joining the fleet in April. She was again deployed as a convoy escort in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.

In May–June, she was part of the force deployed to support amphibious landings of the British Indian Army and the British Army in Rangoon as a part of Operation Dragoon. Between July–October, she joined Force 66 in anti-submarine operations in the Indian Ocean.

After a refit at Bombay, in March 1945, HMIS Cauvery played a major role in the bombardment of Letpan in preparation of landings by the Indian 4th Brigade to cut off the retreat of Japanese Imperial Army as a part of Operation Turret. In April, she was part of the task force for supporting the amphibious landings on Indian 26th Division on Akyab peninsula as a part of Operation Dracula. Other ships supporting the operation included fellow sloops Godaveri, Kistna, Narbada, Sutlej and Hindustan. The task force then continued on patrol duty between the Andamans and Burma.

In July, HMIS Cauvery was deployed to Malacca Straits for minesweeping operations as a part of Operation Collie. She was prepared for an amphibious assault on the Malayan coast, before the postponement of Operation Zipper.

At the end of the war, she was in Singapore for the Japanese surrender ceremony.

After India's independence, she was renamed INS Kaveri and served as a part of the 12th Frigate Squadron. She was decommissioned in 1977 and subsequently scrapped.^[1]

Notes

↑ "HMIS Cauvary (U 10) - Modified Black Swan-class Sloop". naval-history.net. Retrieved 23 April 2015.

References

Hague, Arnold (1993). Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946. Kendal, England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-67-3.

Black Swan-class sloops

Royal Navy	Actaeon Alacrity Amethyst Black Swan Chanticleer Crane Cygnet Erne Flamingo Hart Hind Ibis Kite Lapwing Lark Magpie Mermaid Modeste Nereide Nonsuch^X Nymphe^X Opossum Partridge^X Peacock Pheasant Redpole Snipe Sparrow Starling Waterhen^X Weyneck^X Whimbrel Wild Goose Woodcock Woodpecker Wren

Royal Indian Navy	Cauvery Godaveri Jumna Kistna Narbada Sutlej

German Navy	Hipper Graf Spee Scharnhorst Scheer

Egyptian Navy	El Malek Farouq Tariq

Soviet Navy	Neptun

^X - Cancelled

Frigates of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

Shivalik class	Shivalik Satpura Sahyadri

Talwar class	Talwar (F40) Trishul (F43) Tabar Teg Tarkash Trikand

Brahmaputra class	Brahmaputra (F31) Betwa (F39) Beas (F37)

Godavari class	Ganga Gomati

Decommissioned ships

Frigates

River class	HMIS Tamar HMIS Neza HMIS Dhanush^{[lower-alpha 1]} HMIS Shamsher^{[lower-alpha 2]} HMIS Kukri^{[lower-alpha 3]} HMIS Bengal^{[lower-alpha 4]} HMIS Hooghly^{[lower-alpha 5]} HMIS Tir^{[lower-alpha 6]}

Blackwood class	Khukri Kirpan^{[lower-alpha 7]} Kuthar^{[lower-alpha 8]}

Whitby class	Talwar (F140) Trishul (F143)

Leopard class	Brahmaputra (1958) Beas (1960) Betwa (1960)

Nilgiri class	Nilgiri Himgiri Udaygiri Dunagiri Vindhyagiri Taragiri

Leander class	Krishna

Godavari class	Godavari

Sloops
(later reclassified
as frigates)

Anchusa class	HMIS Elphinstone

P class	HMIS Baluchi HMIS Pathan

Grimsby class	HMIS Indus

Aubretia class	HMIS Cornwallis

Black Swan class	HMIS Narbada^{[lower-alpha 9]} HMIS Godaveri^{[lower-alpha 10]} HMIS Cauvery^{[lower-alpha 11]} HMIS Sutlej^{[lower-alpha 12]} HMIS Jumna^{[lower-alpha 13]} HMIS Kistna^{[lower-alpha 14]}

Hastings class	HMIS Hindustan^{[lower-alpha 15]}

Other sloops	HMIS Clive HMIS Lawrence

Future ships

Project 17A class	7 ships planned (Names to be declared)

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.

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