United Kingdom sold minesweeper HMS Mariner to Burma according to the Australia Station Intelligence Summary dated 1 February 1957

An item referred to negotiations between the British Admiralty and the Burmese cabinet for handing over the HMS Mariner (1) for 82,000 pound sterling. In 1956 visited the First Sea Lord (2) Burma and offered an Algerine class ocean minesweeper for a greatly reduced price.

Notes

1. She became the Yan Myo Aung with Burma paying the reactivation costs at the H.M. Dockyard Sheerness, renamed 18 April 1958. Laid down as HMAS Kincardine by Port Arthur Shipyards, Ontario, Canada on 26 August 1943, launched on 9 May 1944 and completed on 23 May 1945. Finally laid up and broken up in 1982.

2. Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten (25 June 1900 Frogmore-27 August 1979 Mullaghmore, Ireland), First Sea Lord between 1955-1959.

Source

Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.