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Simurgh 1931

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
شاهرخ [Shahrokh]			CNR, Palermo, Italy	1930	26.7.1931	1932	captured by United Kingdom 25.8.1941 (Indian Nilam), returned 1946, discarded 1953
شَهباز [Shahbaz]			OCP, Naples, Italy	1930	12.9.1931	1932	captured by United Kingdom 25.8.1941 (Indian Hira), returned 1946, discarded 1953
كركس [Karkass]			CNR, Palermo, Italy	1930	24.8.1931	1932	captured by United Kingdom 25.8.1941 (Indian Moti), returned 1946, discarded 1946
سیمرغ [Simurgh]			CNR, Palermo, Italy	1930	3.8.1931	1932	captured by United Kingdom 25.8.1941 (Indian Lal), returned 1946, discarded 1953

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	331
Displacement full, t	~360
Length, m	51.8 pp
Breadth, m	6.70
Draught, m	1.83
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Fiat diesels
Power, h. p.	900
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(8)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/40 Ansaldo 1917, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim-Nordenfelt
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Project history

Small ships intended for coastal patrol service. Both 76mm guns were placed on a forecastle.

Modernizations

1946, all (as rearmed in the RIM service): were armed with 1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA Mk IX, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III

Naval service

Chahrokh and Simorgh 25.8.1941 were captured by boarding groups from Australian sloop Yarra at Khorramshahr, Chahbaaz and Karkass this day were captured by boarding groups from Indian sloop Lawrence at Bandar-Shapur. Subsequently all four were commissioned by RIM as Hira, Nilam, Moti and Lai and were used as training and patrol ships at Bombay. They were returned to Iran in 1946 and received former names.