HMIS Bihar (J247)

HMIS Bihar (J199) was a Bangor class minesweeper built in India which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II.

History
HMIS Bihar was ordered in 1940 and built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in Kolkata, India. She was commissioned into the RIN in 1944. She served in World War II, and was scrapped in 1949.

Operations in World War II
Bihar was a part of the Eastern Fleet, and escorted numerous convoys between Africa, British India and Australia in 1944-45.

On 15 July 1944, the British merchant ship Tanda was torpedoed and sunk by German Navy U-boat U-181 in the Arabian Sea at position 13º22'N, 74º09'E, northwest of Mangalore. HMIS Bihar with HMS Monkshood (K207) rescued 197 surviving crew of the Tanda.