HMIS Hindustan (U80)

HMIS Hindustan (L80)

Career	Indian Navy
Class and type:	Folkestone class sloop
Name:	HMIS Hindustan
Ordered:	15 April 1929
Builder:	Swan Hunter
Laid down:	4 September 1929
Launched:	12 May 1930
Commissioned:	10 October 1930
Out of service:	1948
Fate:	Transferred to Pakistan
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,045 tons
Length:	250 ft (76 m)
Beam:	34 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	Geared turbines, 2 shaft
Speed:	16 knots at 2,000 hp
Complement:	100 men
Armament:	2 × 4" BL Mk IX guns 4 × 4.5" AA guns
Honours and awards:	Atlantic (1940-43) Biscay (1943)

HMIS Hindustan (L80) was a Folkestone class (also known as Hastings class) sloop which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II. Her pennant number was changed to U80 in 1940.

Hindustan was transferred to Pakistan in 1948 after the partition of India, and eventually renamed PNS Karsaz. She was decommissioned from the Pakistan Navy in 1960.

History

HMIS Hindustan was ordered in 1929, and built by Swan Hunter. She was commissioned into the Royal Indian Navy in 1930.

During World War II, she was a part of the Eastern Fleet. She escorted numerous convoys in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf between 1942-45. She also supported various amphibious landings of the British Indian Army and the British Army in Burma, Malaya, etc.

In April 1945, with HMIS Narbada (U40), HMIS Cauvery (U10), HMIS Sutlej (U95) and HMIS Kistna (U46), Hindustan supported the amphibious landings of the Indian and British Armies in Rangoon, as a part of Operation Dracula.

After the independence of India and the subsequent partition, she was among the vessels transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1948.

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