Navy | The Royal Indian Navy |
Type | Minesweeper |
Class | Bangor |
Pennant | J 182 |
Mod | Turbine engined |
Built by | Blyth Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. (Blyth, U.K.) : Whites M.E. |
Ordered | 20 Dec 1939 |
Laid down | 28 Jul 1941 |
Launched | 11 May 1942 |
Commissioned | 28 Oct 1942 |
End service | |
History | Transferred to Pakistan in 1948. Sold on 22 January 1959. |
Former name | HMS Greenock |
Commands listed for HMIS Baluchistan (J 182)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt. Donald Andrew McDonald, RIN | 19 Oct 1942 | Feb 1943 |
2 | A/Cdr. Alfred Henry Watt, RIN | Feb 1943 | mid 1943 |
3 | A/Lt.Cdr. Frederick Andrew Kilburn, RNR | mid 1943 | mid 1945 |
4 | T/Lt. Nelson Noel Pettitt, RINR | mid 1945 |
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Notable events involving Baluchistan include:
18 Nov 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. B.J.B. Andrew, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Tobermory with HMIS Baluchistan (Lt. D.A. McDonald, RIN) and HMS Goathland (Lt.Cdr. E.N. Pumphrey, RN, DSO and Bar, DSC, RN). (1)
Sources
- ADM 173/17255
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.