page_title: Michael Clapp
section_title: Indonesian Confrontation 1963–65
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Clapp / Naval career / Indonesian Confrontation 1963–65
caption_attribution_description: English: Project 122bis, a Soviet made sub-hunter patrol craft, known by with NATO designation as Kronshtadt class, sole one still in use with the Albanian Navy Brigade.
context_page_description: Commodore Michael Cecil Clapp, CB, ADC is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the United Kingdom's amphibious assault group, Task Group 317.0, in the Falklands War.
context_section_description: He returned to the Far East to command HMS Puncheston M1174, a Ton-class minesweeper, during the Indonesian Confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia for which he received a mentioned in despatches for "for distinguished services in the Far East Fleet Patrols and the Borneo Territories during the period 24 December 1964 to 23 June 1965." Mainly by not responding to an Indonesian Navy Kronshtadt-class submarine chaser, that trained its guns on his ship in May 1965 while accusing it of being inside the 3 mile limit.  The 14 December 1965 was when Clapp actually received his Mention in Dispatches for his General Service Medal (1962) "for distinguished services in the Far East Fleet Patrols and the Borneo Territories during the period 24 December 1964 to 23 June 1965.
caption: A Kronshtadt-class submarine chaser
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