HMIS Indus (U67)

Indus in Akyab harbour, Burma, 1942
History
India
Name	Indus
Namesake	Indus
Builder	Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Laid down	8 December 1933[1]
Launched	24 August 1934[1]
Commissioned	15 March 1935[1]
Identification	Pennant number: L67 (U67 after 1940)
Fate	Sunk by Japanese aircraft off Akyab, 6 April 1942
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Grimsby class sloop
Displacement	1,190 long tons (1,210 t) standard load
Length	296 ft 4 in (90.32 m) oa
Beam	35 ft 6 in (10.82 m)
Draught	10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Propulsion	Parsons geared turbines; 2 shafts, 2 Admiralty 3-drum type boilers, 2,000 shp (1,500 kW) Oil fuel: 341 tons
Speed	16.25 kn (30.10 km/h; 18.70 mph)
Complement	119
Armament	2 × 4.7 in (120 mm) Mark IX guns, 4 × 3-pounder guns, 1 × quadruple Vickers .50 machine gun mount[1]

HMIS Indus was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Indian Navy launched in 1934 and sunk during the Second World War in 1942. She was a slightly enlarged version of other vessels in the Grimsby class. She was named after the Indus River. Indus served mainly as an escort vessel, and she was therefore lightly armed. Her pennant number was changed to U67 in 1940.^[3]