HMIS Hindustan (L80)

HMIS Hindustan (L80) was a Folkestone class (also known as Hastings class) sloop which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II. Her pennant number was changed to U80 in 1940.

Hindustan was transferred to Pakistan in 1948 after the partition of India, and eventually renamed PNS Karsaz. She was decommissioned from the Pakistan Navy in 1960.

History
HMIS Hindustan was ordered in 1929, and built by Swan Hunter. She was commissioned into the Royal Indian Navy in 1930.

During World War II, she was a part of the Eastern Fleet. She escorted numerous convoys in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf between 1942-45. She also supported various amphibious landings of the British Indian Army and the British Army in Burma, Malaya, etc.

In April 1945, with HMIS Narbada, HMIS Cauvery, HMIS Sutlej and HMIS Kistna, Hindustan supported the amphibious landings of the Indian and British Armies in Rangoon, as a part of Operation Dracula.

During the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of February 1946 Hindustan was berthed at Karachi, and occupied by mutineers. When ordered to debark the mutineers refused, but finally surrendered after a brief firefight with the 15th (King's) Parachute Battalion, supported by four 75mm pack howitzers of C Troop, 159 Parachute Light Regiment, Royal Artillery.

As a result of the partition of India at the time of independence, Hindustan was among the vessels transferred to the Royal Pakistan Navy in 1948, being renamed Karsaz.