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The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India.Along with the Presidency armies, later the Indian Army, and from 1932 the Royal Indian Air Force, it was one of the Armed Forces of British India.
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 following is the list of ships of the Royal Indian Navy, in existence from 1934 to 1950, when it was renamed the Indian Navy. Several of the vessels listed below were transferred to the Royal Pakistani Navy in 1947.
The induction of women in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) began with the wives of RIN officers in service in the port city of Bombay (now Mumbai), before extending to other Indian ports. [1] They were first employed in 1939, at the onset of the Second World War, with the purpose of assisting in decoding secret messages. [1]
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.
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 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 ...
During the Second World War, the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) had rapidly expanded from a small naval force composed of sloops to become a full–fledged navy. [6] The expansion occurred in an ad hoc basis as operational requirements changed over the course of the war, the naval headquarters was moved from Bombay to New Delhi during this period, the navy acquired a varied assortment of warships and ...