HMIS ''Clive'' (L79) was a sloop, commissioned in 1920 into the

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(RIM). She served during

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in the

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(RIN), the successor to the RIM. Her pennant number was changed to U79 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

HMIS ''Clive'' was ordered under the Emergency War Programme of

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, she was completed after the end of the war. During World War II, she was a part of the

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. She escorted numerous convoys in the

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1942-45. She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1947, soon after the end of the war.

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References

* *Parkes, Oscar. ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1931''. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). . {{DEFAULTSORT:Clive (L79) Sloops of the Royal Indian Navy 1919 ships