INS Beas (F137)
Appearance
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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 Leopard-class frigate of the Indian Navy. She was launched by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1958 and completed in 1960. Beas served in the Battle at Mormugão harbour 1961 and during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. She was stricken by the INS in 1988 and scrapped in 1992.
Construction and design
[edit]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
[edit]1971 war
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Gardiner, Robert Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1995, ISBN 0-85177-605-1 page 174.
- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships 1975-76. Franklin Watts. 1975. p. 170. ISBN 0-531-03251-5.
- ^ Jane's Fighting Ships 1986-87. Jane’s Publishing Company. 1986. p. 246. ISBN 0-7106-0828-4.