HMIS Godaveri

History
HMIS GODAVARI launched at Southampton by Mrs Lall, the wife of the Deputy High Commissioner for India
Royal Indian Navy
Name:	Godavari
Namesake:	Godavari River
Ordered:	29 August 1940
Builder:	Thornycroft
Yard number:	Yard 1386
Laid down:	30 August 1941
Launched:	21 March 1943
Commissioned:	28 June 1943
Out of service:	1948
Honours and awards:	Burma, 1945
Fate:	Transferred to Pakistan
Badge:	Map of India and the Indian Ocean with a border of lotus; sea Blue, British territory Gold and Lotus proper
General characteristics
Type:	Sloop-of-war
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)
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 Godavari (U 52) was a Black Swan class sloop which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.

Godavari was transferred to Pakistan in 1948 after the Partition of India and eventually renamed PNS Sind.

Operational service

Leading Seaman Harjit Singh striking the bell of Godavari on commissioning at Woolston, Southampton, 22 June 1943 (IWM A17517)

HMIS Godavari was built by John I. Thornycroft & Company and commissioned in 1943. Following commissioning she was sent to Scapa Flow for trials and working up. She was deployed in home waters for convoy defence on the UK-Gibraltar route. On 22 December 1943 she was involved in a collision with the SS Manchester Progress and was sent for repair in Londonderry.

On completion of repairs in February 1944 Godavari was nominated for transfer to the Eastern Fleet and convoy defence in the Indian Ocean, where she arrived in April 1944.

On 12 August the German submarine U-198 was sunk near the Seychelles, in position 03º35'S, 52º49'E, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Findhorn (under the command of Lt.Cdr. J.C. Dawson, RD, RNR) and Godavari (under the command of A/Cdr. A.B. Goord, RIN).^[1]

Between January and March 1945 she was nominated for support of military operations in Burma. In August she was also nominated for support of the allied landings in Japan as part of Operation Zipper, howebere this operation was cancelled following the dropping of the atomic bombs and Japan's subsequent surrender.

Her commanding officers in the Royal Indian Navy were:

From 22 Jun 1943 to 10 May 1944: A/Capt. James Wilfred Jefford OBE, RIN
From 10 May 1944 to 10 Feb 1945: A/Cdr. Anthony Brian Goord, RIN
From 10 Feb 1945 to 1948: A/Lt.Cdr. Hajee Mohammed Siddiq Choudry, RIN

Post war

After the Independence of India and the subsequent Partition, she was among the vessels transferred to Pakistan, where she was renamed PNS Sind.

Notes

↑ http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3922.html

References

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. OCLC 67375475.
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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