NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate	Modification
Sind (ex-Betony)	K274		Hall, Aberdeen, UK	9.1942	22.4.1943	8.1943 // 8.1945	to United Kingdom 5.1946 (Betony)	British-built, 1941 program
Assam (ex-Bugloss)	K306		Crown, Sunderland, UK	11.1942	21.6.1943	11.1943 // 2.1945	BU 1947	British-built, 1941 program
Gondwana (ex-Burnet)	K348		Ferguson, Glasgow, UK	11.1942	31.5.1943	9.1943 // 5.1945	to United Kingdom 5.1946 (Burnet)	British-built, 1941 program
Mahratta (ex-Charlock)	K395		Ferguson, Glasgow, UK	1942/43	16.11.1943	3.1944 // 1946	wrecked 1947	British-built, 1942 program

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	980 - 1000
Displacement full, t	1350 - 1370
Length, m	57.9 pp 62.5 oa
Breadth, m	10.1
Draught, m	4.34 - 4.42 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2750
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	oil 337
Endurance, nm(kts)	7400(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/45 BL Mk IX, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (72) Mahratta: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IIIV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (72)
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 273 or type 291 radar, type 123 or type 128 or type 144 sonar
Complement	109

Project history

"Flower" with considerably increased fuel stowage. They were built in Britain and Canada and differed only by boilers: British-built ships had traditional fire-tube but Canadian-built ships had water-tube ones.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Mahratta was lost in 1947.