Minesweeper of the Bangor class
| Navy | The Royal Indian Navy |
| Type | Minesweeper |
| Class | Bangor |
| Pennant | J 247 |
| Built by | Garden Reach Shipbuilding & Engineers Ltd. (Ranchi, India) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 7 Jun, 1941 |
| Launched | 7 Jul, 1942 |
| Commissioned | 27 Feb, 1944 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Scrapped in 1949. |
| Noteable events involving Bihar include: 15 Jul, 1944
The British merchant Tanda is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-181 northwest of Mangalore in the Arabian Sea in position 13º22'N, 74º09'E. HMIS Bihar (T/Lt. W.L. Deeble, DSC, RINR) and HMS Monkshood (Lt. G.W. McGuinness, RNR) together pick up 197 survivors. |
