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HMIS ''Lawrence'' (L83) was a sloop, commissioned in 1919 into the Royal Indian Marine (RIM).〔〔http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3876.html〕 She served during World War II in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN), the successor to the RIM. Her pennant number was changed to U83 in 1940. Although originally built as a minesweeper, she was primarily used as a convoy escort during the war. She was scrapped soon after the end of the war. ==History== HMIS ''Lawrence'' was ordered under the Emergency War Programme of the First World War, being launched at William Beardmore and Company on 30 July 1919 and completed on 27 December 1919.〔 In the immediate post-war years, ''Lawrence'' was used by the Royal Indian Marine for servicing buoys and lighthouses and as a transport for high officials in the Persian Gulf.〔Collins 1964, pp. 6–7.〕 On the outbreak of the Second World War, the ''Lawrence'', whose armament had been increased by the addition of four 3-pounder guns and a second 2-pounder pom-pom,〔Collins 1964, p. 13.〕 deployed to Masirah Island off the coast of Oman where it was used to carry out patrols,〔Collins 1964, p. 33.〕 taking part in the unsuccessful search for the missing airliner Hannibal in March 1940.〔Collins 1964, p.36.〕 Immediately prior to the outbreak of the Anglo-Iraqi War, ''Lawrence'' helped to cover the landing of the 20th Indian Infantry Brigade at Basra on 18 April 1941.〔Collins 1964, pp. 71–72.〕 When Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran in August 1941, ''Lawrence'' took part in the attack on Abadan on 25 August 1941, boarding and capturing the Iranian gunboats ''Karkas'' and ''Shahbaaz'' and two Italian merchant ships.〔Collins 1964, pp. 78–82, 88–92.〕 In late 1944 ''Lawrence'' was assigned to HMIS ''Himalaya'', the Gunnery school in Karachi as a Gunnery School Firing Ship,〔Collins 1964, p. 128.〕 and joined the Bombay training squadron in November 1945.〔Collins 1964, p.144.〕 ''Lawrence'' was decommissioned and scrapped in 1947, two years after the end of the war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMIS Lawrence (L83)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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