HMIS ''Ahmedabad'' (T 264) was a ''Basset''-class trawler that was part of the

Royal Indian Navy The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British Raj, British India and the Dominion of India. Along with the Presidency armies, later the British Indian Army, Indian Army, and from 1932 the Royal Indian Air Force, it was one of the ...

. The ship was laid down in Bombay by Scindia Steam Navigation Co Ltd in 1941 and was launched in 1943. She was under the command of Lieutenant Robert Love of the Royal Indian Naval Reserve from the 14th April 1944 until early 1945, when he was replaced by Lieutenant Hosi Behramji Dubash of the Royal Indian Naval Volunteer Reserve ''Ahmedabad'' was an anti-submarine trawler. One of the journeys that the ship made was during a cyclone in 1945 on the Indian east coast from

Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam (; List of renamed places in India, formerly known as Vizagapatam, and also referred to as Vizag, Visakha, and Waltair) is the largest and most populous metropolitan city in the States and union territories of India, Indian stat ...

to search for a landing craft tank (LCT) but in Coconda, ''Ahmedabad'' grounded and had to be salvaged.

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