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'''HMIS ''Clive'' (L79)''' was a [[sloop of war|sloop]], commissioned in 1920 into the [[Royal Indian Marine]] (RIM).<ref name="JFS31 p96"/><ref name=ub-clive>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3877.html |title=HMIS Clive (L 79 / U 79) of the Royal Indian Navy |website=www.uboat.net}}</ref>

She served during [[World War II]] in the [[Royal Indian Navy]] (RIN), the successor to the RIM. Her [[pennant number]] was changed to '''U79''' in 1940. Although originally built as a minesweeper, she was primarily used as a convoy escort during the war. She was scrapped soon after the end of the war.

==History==
HMIS ''Clive'' was ordered under the Emergency War Programme of [[World War I]], she was completed after the end of the war. During World War II, she was a part of the [[Eastern Fleet]]. She escorted numerous convoys in the [[Indian Ocean]] 1942-45.<ref name=nh-1942>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1942.htm |title=East Indies Fleet, Admiralty Diary Jan-March 1942 |website=www.naval-history.net}}</ref><ref name=nh-1943a>{{Cite web |url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1943a.htm |title=Eastern Fleet War Diary 1943 |website=www.naval-history.net}}</ref>

She was decommissioned and scrapped in 1947, soon after the end of the war.

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{citation |last=Collins |first=J.T.E. |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html |via=HyperWar Foundation |title=The Royal Indian Navy |series= Official History of the Indian Armed Forces In the Second World War [1939–1945] |location= New Delhi |publisher= Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan) |date= 1964 }}
*Parkes, Oscar. ''Jane's Fighting Ships 1931''. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK:Davis & Charles Reprints, 1931 (1973 reprint). {{ISBN|0-7153-5849-9}}.
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HMIS Clive - Revision history

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