Minesweeper of the Bangor class
| Navy | The Royal Indian Navy |
| Type | Minesweeper |
| Class | Bangor |
| Pennant | J 197 |
| Built by | Lobnitz & Co. Ltd. (Renfrew, Scotland) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 21 Jun, 1941 |
| Launched | 31 Dec, 1941 |
| Commissioned | 30 Apr, 1942 |
| End service | |
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| History | Scrapped in 1961. |
| Former name | HMS Lyme Regis |
| Noteable events involving Rajputana include: 29 Sep, 1943
HMIS Rajputana (Lt. W.G. Coltham, RIN) picks up 99 survivors from the British merchant Banffshire that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-532 north-west of the Maldive Islands in position 09º26'N, 71º20'E. 28 Dec, 1943
HMIS Rajputana (Lt. W.G. Coltham, RIN) picks up 166 survivors from the American merchant José Navarro that was torpedoed and sunk the previous dayby the German submarine U-178 about 175 nautical miles south-west of Cochin, India in position 08º20'N, 73º55'E. |
