HMS Delhi
The
HMS Delhi Leander class cruiser built for the
Royal Navy in 1933 as
HMS Achilles.
She was commissioned into the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy (later Royal New Zealand Navy) in 1937 as
HMNZS Achilles. She was returned to the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War and was sold to the
Indian Navy in 1948 and commissioned as
INS Delhi. She remained in service until decommissioned for scrap at
Bombay on
30 June 1978.
When she was recommissioned as HMIS
Delhi on
5 July 1948 (prior to India becoming a republic) she was under the command of Captain H.N.S. Brown of the Royal Navy. She had 17 British officers and petty officers, the rest of the crew being Indian. Commander R.D. Katari, executive officer, was the most senior Indian officer. She conducted her first major goodwill cruise in 1948, to
East Africa,
the Seychelles, and
Mauritius.
She is named after a city in
India named
Delhi.
