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History
India
Name	Madras
Ordered	24 September 1940
Builder	Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company
Laid down	4 August 1941
Launched	17 February 1942
Commissioned	12 May 1942
Decommissioned	1960
General characteristics
Class and type	Bathurst-class minesweeper
Displacement	1,025 tons (full war load)
Length	186 ft (57 m)
Beam	31 ft (9.4 m)
Draught	8.5 ft (2.6 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion, 2 shafts. 2,000 hp
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	85
Sensors and processing systems	Type 128 asdic
Armament	1 × 12-pounder gun or 1 × 4 inchgun, 1 × 40 mm Bofors gun, 2-3 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns, up to 40 depth charges

HMIS Madras (J237) was a Bathurst-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.

History

HMIS Madras was ordered in 1940, and built at Cockatoo Docks in Australia. She was commissioned in 1942 into the Eastern Fleet. She escorted a number of convoys until the end of the war.

See also

• INS Chennai (D65)

Notes

1. "HMIS Madras (J 237) of the Royal Indian Navy - Indian Minesweeper of the Bathurst class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
2. "Eastern Fleet, Admiralty War Diary 1942". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
3. "Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
4. "East Indies Fleet War Diary 1944". Naval-history.net. 30 December 1944. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
5. "East Indies Fleet War Diary 1945". Naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 June 2014.

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Footnotes Renamed as INS Bombay post republic. Renamed as INS Bengal post republic. Renamed as INS Madras post republic. Classified as Anti-Submarine Naval Trawlers

• Bathurst-class corvettes of the Royal Indian Navy
• 1942 ships