INS Beas (F137)
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INS Beas (1958)
)
History | |
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India | |
Name | INS Beas |
Namesake | Beas River |
Owner | Government of India |
Ordered | 1954 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs Shipbuilders Limited, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Laid down | 29 November 1956 |
Launched | 9 October 1958 |
Completed | 24 May 1960 |
Decommissioned | 1988 |
In service | 1960-1988 |
Out of service | 1988 |
Stricken | 1988 |
Identification | F137, F37 |
Fate | Scrapped 1992 |
Notes | First of two Leopard Class ships built for India and not transferred from Royal Navy |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leopard-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | 103.6 m (339 ft 11 in) o/a |
Beam | 12.2 metres (40 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | 8 × Admiralty Standard Range ASR1 diesels, 14,400 shp (10,738 kW), 2 shafts |
Speed | 25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h) |
Range | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) |
Complement | 210 |
Armament |
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INS Beas was a
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
. She was stricken by the INS in 1988 and scrapped in 1992.
Construction and design
In 1954, the
British Admiralty ordered the sixth anti-aircraft frigate of the Leopard-class for the Indian order as INS Beas.[1]
She carried pennant number F137,[2] in 1980s changed to F37.[3]
Service
1971 war
Beas took part in amphibious landings at Cox's Bazar alongside her sister ship INS Brahmaputra, landing divers in advance of the landing and providing gunfire support to the landings.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-85177-605-1page 174.
- ISBN 0-531-03251-5.
- ISBN 0-7106-0828-4.