| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Betony |
| Ordered: | 8 December 1941 |
| Builder: | Alexander Hall and Sons |
| Laid down: | 26 September 1942 |
| Launched: | 22 April 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1945 |
| Out of service: | 1947 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K274 |
| Fate: | Loaned to the Indian Navy 1945 Sold to the Royal Thai Navy 1947 |
| Career (British India) |  |
| Name: | HMIS Sind |
| Acquired: | 24 August 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 24 August 1945 |
| Out of service: | 17 May 1946 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K274 |
| Fate: | Transferred back to the Royal Navy |
| Career (Thailand) |  |
| Name: | HTMS Prasae |
| Acquired: | 1947 |
| Commissioned: | 1947 |
| Out of service: | 7 January 1951 |
| Fate: | Scuttled |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette (modified) |
| Displacement: | 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons) |
| Length: | 208 ft (63.40 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.35 m) |
| Propulsion: | Single shaft, 2x oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) |
| Speed: | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 90 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
One Type 271 SW2C radar, one Type 144 sonar |
| Armament: |
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HMS Betony was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1941, and commissioned in August 1945. She was immediately transferred to the Royal Indian Navy, where she was commissioned as HMIS Sind.[1] She was transferred back to the Royal Navy in May 1946, as the war ended just days after her transfer. She was then sold to the Royal Thai Navy in 1947 as HTMS Prasae, and eventually scuttled in 1951.
History [link]
Betony was ordered from Alexander Hall and Sons for the Royal Navy in 1941.
She was transferred to the Royal Indian Navy and the Eastern Fleet immediately upon commissioning in August 1945 and served as HMIS Sind. She developed engine trouble soon after her transfer.[2] With the end of World War II just days after her transfer and the imminent independence of India, she was transferred back to the Royal Navy in 1946.
In 1947, she was sold to the Royal Thai Navy and commissioned as HTMS Prasae. On 7 January 1951, during a snowstorm, she was beached on the east coast of Korea. After unsuccessful attempts to pull her off the beach, she was scuttled.
Notes [link]
- ^ "HMIS Sind (ii) (K 274)". Uboat.net. https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7906.html. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
- ^ "Eastern Fleet War Diary". naval-history.net. https://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1945.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
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Sindh
Sindh /sɪnd/ (Urdu: سندھ ; Sindhi: سنڌ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, in the southeast of the country. Historically home to the Sindhi people, it is also locally known as the Mehran. It was formerly known as Sind until the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan. Spelling of its official name as Sind was discontinued in 2013 by an amendment passed in Sindh Assembly. The name "Sindh" is derived from the Sanskrit Sindhu, a reference to the Indus River that passes almost through the middle of the state.
Sindh is the third largest province by size, and second largest province by population. It is bordered by Balochistan province to the west, Punjab province to the north, the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to the east, and Arabian Sea to the south. The provincial capital and largest city of the province is Karachi, which is Pakistan's largest city and the country's only financial hub.
The province has a diverse industrialized economy which emphasizes on manufacturing, education and agriculture development. It is a major exporter of fruit and vegetables to other parts of the country.
Sind Province (1936–55)
Sindh was a province of British India from 1936 to 1947 and Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. Under the British, it encompassed the current territorial limits excluding the princely state of Khairpur with the capital at Karachi. After Pakistan's creation, the province lost the city of Karachi, as it became the capital of the newly created country.
Location
The province was bordered by Karachi (within The Federal Capital Territory after 1948) and the princely states of Las Bela and Kalat on the west. To the north were the provinces of Baluchistan and West Punjab. The province bordered the princely state of Bahawalpur on the northeast and it enclosed on three sides the princely state of Khairpur. The nation of India's states of Rajasthan and Gujarat bordered to the east and south. On the southwest lay the Arabian Sea, with the Sind's coastline consisting entirely of river deltas, including the Indus River Delta up to Sind's border with the city of Karachi, now the capital of modern Sindh.
Sindh (disambiguation)
Sind or Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ, Urdu: سندھ, Hindi: सिन्ध) can refer to:
See also
HMIS
HMIS may refer to:
