HMIS Sind
{{short description|Modified Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy, Royal Indian Navy and Royal Thai Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Betony FL2011.jpg |Ship caption=HMS Betony underway }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name=Betony |Ship ordered=8 December 1941 |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Alexander Hall and Sons |Ship laid down=26 September 1942 |Ship launched=22 April 1943 |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=24 August 1945 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service=1947 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship identification=Pennant number: K274 |Ship fate=*Loaned to the Indian Navy 1945
|Ship homeport= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=British India |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|British India|naval}} |Ship name=Sind |Ship christened= |Ship acquired=24 August 1945 |Ship commissioned=24 August 1945 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service=17 May 1946 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship identification=Pennant number: K274 |Ship fate=Transferred back to the Royal Navy |Ship homeport= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=Thailand |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Thailand|naval}} |Ship name=Prasae |Ship namesake=Prasae River |Ship christened= |Ship acquired=1947 |Ship commissioned=1947 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service=7 January 1951 |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship captured= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship fate=Scuttled |Ship homeport= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass2|Flower|corvette}} (modified) |Ship type= |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement={{convert|1015|LT|t ST|lk=in}} |Ship length={{convert|208|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}o/a |Ship beam={{convert|33|ft|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught={{convert|11|ft|m|2|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=Single shaft, 2× oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, {{convert|2750|ihp|abbr=on}} |Ship sail plan= |Ship speed={{convert|16|kn|km/h|1}} |Ship range={{convert|3500|nmi|km|0}} at {{convert|12|kn|km/h|1}} |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement=90 |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors=One Type 271 SW2C radar, one Type 144 sonar |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*1 × BL 4 inch Mk IX naval gun BL Mk.IX single gun
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HMS Betony was a {{sclass2|Flower|corvette}} of the British Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1941, and commissioned in August 1945. She was immediately transferred to the Royal Indian Navy, where she was commissioned as HMIS Sind.{{cite web|url=http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7906.html|title=HMIS Sind (ii) (K 274)|publisher=Uboat.net|access-date=2012-03-28}} She was transferred back to the Royal Navy in May 1946, as the war ended just days after her transfer. She was then sold to the Royal Thai Navy in 1947 as HTMS Prasae ({{langx|th|เรือหลวงประเเส}}), and eventually scuttled in 1951.
History
Betony was ordered from Alexander Hall and Sons for the Royal Navy in 1941.
She was transferred to the Royal Indian Navy and the Eastern Fleet immediately upon commissioning in August 1945 and served as HMIS Sind. She developed engine trouble soon after her transfer.{{cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1945.htm|title=Eastern Fleet War Diary|publisher=naval-history.net|access-date=2012-03-28}} With the end of World War II just days after her transfer and the imminent independence of India, she was transferred back to the Royal Navy in 1946.
In 1947, she was sold to the Royal Thai Navy and commissioned as HTMS Prasae. On 7 January 1951, while serving in the Korean War during a snowstorm, she was beached near Yangyang on the east coast of North Korea. After unsuccessful attempts to pull her off the beach, she was scuttled.
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