| Navy | The Royal Indian Navy |
| Type | Auxiliary patrol vessel |
| Class | [No specific class] |
| Pennant | 4.198 |
| Built by | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. (Dundee, Scotland, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | 10 Oct 1935 |
| Commissioned | 30 Sep 1939 |
| End service | |
| History | Completed in December 1935 as passenger ship. Displacement: 606 tons. Dimensions: 64.9 x 10.7 feet. Requisitioned by the RIN on 31 August 1939. Returned to her owner in 1946. |
Commands listed for HMIS Ratnagiri (4.198)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. (retd) Henry Morland, RIN | 27 Sep 1939 | 29 Dec 1939 |
| 2 | T/Lt.Cdr. Henry Ellis Passmore-Edwards, RINR | 29 Dec 1939 | 15 Aug 1940 |
| 3 | Lt. Hugh Murray Clark, RIN | 15 Aug 1940 | late 1941 |
| 4 | Lt. Sadishar Ganesh Karmarkar, RINR | late 1941 | 7 Mar 1942 |
| 5 | T/Lt. Alexander Begg Kelly, RINR | 7 Mar 1942 | 1 Dec 1943 |
| 6 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. William Alexander Dow-Sainter, RINR | 1 Dec 1943 | 27 Jul 1944 |
| 7 | Lt. Ronald Leslie Edwards, RIN | 27 Jul 1944 | mid 1945 |
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Notable events involving Ratnagiri include:
1 Feb 1941
Convoy BN 14.
This convoy departed Aden on 1 February 1941.
It was made up of the following (troop) transports / tankers; Akbar (British, 4043 GRT, built 1924), Alavi (British, 3566 GRT, built 1924), Alcyone (Dutch, 4534 GRT, built 1921), Anglo Canadian (British, 5288 GRT, built 1928), Arena (Norwegian (tanker), 6362 GRT, built 1927), Atlas (Greek, 4008 GRT, built 1919), Axios (Greek, 5289 GRT, built 1919), Captain A.F. Lucas (Panamanian (tanker), 4188 GRT, built 1904), City of Cardiff (British, 5661 GRT, built 1918), City of Leicester (British, 3351 GRT, built 1926), Comliebank (British, 5149 GRT, built 1924), Cranfield (British, 5332 GRT, built 1919), Elpis (Greek, 3651 GRT, built 1912), Espercance (British, 5072 GRT, built 1923), Fagersten (Norwegian, 2342 GRT, built 1921), Goalpara (British, 5314 GRT, built 1919), Havre (British, 2073 GRT, built 1905), Jaladuta (British, 4966 GRT, built 1927), Jalavihar (British, 5330 GRT, built 1911), Jalayamuna (British, 4981 GRT, built 1936), Julia (Greek, 4348 GRT, built 1914), Konistra (Greek, 3539 GRT, built 1907), Kronviken (British, 2363 GRT, built 1904), Mina L. Cambanis (Greek, 5227 GRT, built 1920), Nils Moller (British (tanker), 6907 GRT, built 1922), Norse Lady (Norwegian, 3489 GRT, built 1919), Nurmahal (British, 5419 GRT, built 1923), Nymphe (Greek, 4504 GRT, built 1921), Observer (British, 5881 GRT, built 1928), Petalli (British, 6565 GRT, built 1917), Queen Adelaide (British, 4933 GRT, built 1936), Rosalie Moller (British, 3963 GRT, built 1910), Saronikos (Greek, 3548 GRT, built 1912), Solheim (Norwegian (tanker), 8078 GRT, built 1934), Themoni (Greek, 5719 GRT, built 1938), Uniwaleco (British (tanker), 9755 GRT, built 1905), Woolgar (Norwegian, 3060 GRT, built 1914) and Zannis L. Cambanis (Greek, 5317 GRT, built 1920).
On departure from Aden the convoy was escorted by the light cruiser HMS Caledon (Capt. C.P. Clarke, RN), destroyer HMS Kingston (Lt.Cdr. P. Somerville, DSO, RN), sloops HMS Shoreham (Cdr. G.P. Claridge, RN), HMIS Indus (Cdr. E.G.G. Hunt, RIN) and the auxiliary patrol vessel HMIS Ratnagiri (Lt. H.M. Clark, RIN).
The convoy was dispersed on 1830C/3. HMS Caledon, HMS Kingston and HMIS Ratnagiri then proceeded to Aden arriving on 4 February except the Ratnagiri which arrived on the 5th having escorted the Alcyone, Elpis, Kronviken and Observer towards there.
The other ships of the convoy arrived at Suez between 6 and 9 February 1941. (1)
Sources
- ADM 199/408
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.