Built as a patrol frigate under yard No 522 by Beardmore at Dalmuir for the Royal Indian Navy.
10 December 1919 launched as the HMIS CLIVE, one sister the HMIS LAWRENCE.
Displacement 1.748 standard, 2.100 tons full load, dim. 79.86 x 11.58 x 4.27m.
Powered by Brown-Curtis SR turbines, 2.000 shp, speed 14.5 knots, twin shafts, speed ?
Two Bacock & Wilcox water-tube boilers.
Armament 2 – 3pdrs.
Crew 123.
12 April 1920 completed (Miramar gives 20 April 1920).
Both units were designed to double as patrol sloops and to transport Indian Government officials, but they were decreasingly required for the later service as internal communications were improved.
Both units were very similar in appearance with a flush-decked hull, clipper stem and bowsprit, and counter stern, was rigged with two pole masts. Both were engaged in local escort work during the early part of the war, and after 1944 principally employed in training.
She was scrapped in 1947, no details of where and dates.
British Indian Ocean Territory 1995 56p sg170, scott166.
Source: watercraft Philately 1997/25. British & Empire Warships of the Second World War by H.T. Lenton. MARHST-list Michael Pryce.