Navy | The Royal Indian Navy |
Type | Auxiliary patrol vessel |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | |
Built by | Unterweser (Wesermunde, Germany) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | Jan 1923 |
Commissioned | 7 Oct 1939 |
Lost | 1 Mar 1942 |
History | Completed in March 1923 as passenger/cargo vessel. Displacement: 991 tons. Dimentions: 69.5 x 10.5 feet. Requisitioned by the RIN on 1 September 1939. Mined off the Southern entrance to Macpherson Strait, Andaman Island on 1 March 1942. |
Commands listed for HMIS Sohpie Marie
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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.
Commander | From | To | |
1 | T/Lt. Harold James Gahan, RINR | 3 Jan 1940 | 21 Jul 1940 |
2 | T/Lt. Edward George Dyke, RINR | 21 Jul 1940 | 25 Sep 1941 |
3 | T/Lt. Douglas George Cowan Courtenay, RINR | 25 Sep 1941 | 1 Mar 1942 |
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