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ROYAL INDIAN MARINE (INDIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII requisitioned fishing vessels

100 - 1000 BRT:

Trawlers: Laxmi (1918, 301, 1940 - 6.1946), Nautilus (1913, 290, 1941 - 1946)

Project history: Civil fishery vessels requisitioned by Admiralty.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. Also very many drifters and motor fishing vessels with tonnage less than 100 BRT were commissioned by Navy.

Ivan Gogin, 2015