HMIS Oudh (J245)

Career (India)
Name: HMIS Oudh
Ordered: 14 October 1940
Builder: Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
Laid down: 7 June 1941
Launched: 3 March 1942
Commissioned: 21 October 1943
Out of service: 1948
Fate: Transferred to Pakistan
Career (Pakistan)
Name: PNS Dacca
Acquired: 1948
Out of service: 22 January 1959
Fate: Sold
General characteristics
Class and type: Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement: 605 tons
Length: 162 ft (49.4 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught: 8.25 ft (2.51 m)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 9-cylinder diesel, 2,000 bhp (1,500 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement: 60
Armament:

HMIS Oudh (J245) was a Bangor class minesweeper which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.[1] She was transferred to Pakistan in 1948 after the partition of India and eventually renamed PNS Dacca.

History

HMIS Oudh was ordered in 1940, and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in India. She was commissioned in 1943, into the Eastern Fleet. She escorted a number of convoys until the end of the war.[2][3][4]

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

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