HMIS Agra (T254)
Appearance
History | |
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India | |
Name | Agra |
Namesake | Agra, city in Northern India |
Owner | Royal Indian Navy |
Ordered | 29 July 1940 |
Builder | Hooghly Docking & Engineering Company Ltd. (Calcutta) |
Laid down | 11 November 1940 |
Launched | 19 March 1942 |
Commissioned | 15 April 1942 |
Decommissioned | 1946 |
Fate | Sold 1948, scrapped February 1963 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Basset-class naval trawler |
Type | Naval trawler |
Displacement | 521 long tons (529 t) |
Length | 160 ft 6 in (48.92 m) |
Beam | 27 ft 1 in (8.26 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m) (mean) |
Propulsion | 1 triple expansion reciprocating engine, 1 shaft, 850 ihp (634 kW) |
Speed | 12.5 knots (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h) |
Complement | 33 (RIN 48) |
Armament |
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HMIS Agra (T254) was a minesweeping trawler of the Royal Indian Navy, one of twenty-two built to the design of the Royal Navy's Basset-class during the Second World War.[2] She was laid down in November 1940, and launched in April 1942, serving until her decommissioning in 1946.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Conway (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980). ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- ^ Conway (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 (1980). p. 54. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- ^ "HMIS Agra (T 254) of the Royal Indian Navy - Indian MS Trawler of the Basset class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 13 July 2021.