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On 1 March 1947, the designation of "Flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy" was replaced with that of "Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy." [ 42 ] On 21 July 1947, H.M.S. Choudhry and Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman, both of whom later commanded the Pakistani and Indian Navies, respectively, became the first Indian RIN officers to attain the ...
The Royal Indian Navy was formally inaugurated on 2 October 1934, at Bombay. [31] Its ships carried the prefix HMIS, for His Majesty's Indian Ship. [32] At the start of the Second World War, the Royal Indian Navy was small, with only eight warships. The onset of the war led to an expansion in vessels and personnel described by one writer as ...
The P class, nominally described as "patrol boats", was in effect a class of British coastal sloops.Twenty-four ships to this design were ordered in May 1915 (numbered P.11 to P.34) and another thirty between February and June 1916 (numbered P.35 to P.64) under the Emergency War Programme [2] for the Royal Navy in the First World War, although ten of the latter group were in December 1916 ...
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hindustan or Hindostan, after the old name for the Indian subcontinent: HMS Hindostan (1795) was a former East Indiaman by the same name and launched in 1789. The Admiralty purchased her in 1795 and classed her as a 54-gun fourth rate. She was converted into a storeship in 1802 and burned in an ...
This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable boats or dugout canoes or the like.
Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Rullion Rattray, KBE, CB, CIE (2 May 1891 – 10 August 1966) was a British naval officer who served in the Royal Indian Marine and was an air observer during World War I. He rose to senior rank in the Royal Indian Navy during World War II.
The Indian War Memorial Museum is in the Naubat Khana of the Red Fort in Delhi, northern India. [ 3 ] It was built in 1919 [ 4 ] as a tribute to commemorate the soldiers who had joined the First World War in India or abroad on behalf of the British Empire .
The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India from 1 May 1830 to 26 January 1950. It came under the East Indies Station at the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September 1939. [24] In December 1941 it came under the command of the new Eastern Fleet.