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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Veer-class corvette of the Indian Navy}}<br />
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| country = India<br />
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| name = INS ''Prahar''<br />
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| builder = [[Goa Shipyard Limited]]<br />
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| launched = 26 August 1995<br />
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| commissioned = 1 March 1997<br />
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| identification = [[Pennant number]]: K98<br />
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| fate = Sunk in collision, in 2006<br />
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| displacement = 455 tons (full load)<br />
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'''INS ''Prahar''''' (''Assault'')<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0 | title=प्रहार - Wiktionary, the free dictionary }}</ref> was a {{sclass|Veer|corvette}} of the [[Indian Navy]].<ref name=in-veer>{{Cite web |url=http://indiannavy.nic.in/corvettes_veer.htm |title=Surface Ships of Indian Navy |access-date=6 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619084849/http://indiannavy.nic.in/corvettes_veer.htm |archive-date=19 June 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Operations==<br />
In October 1999, she assisted the [[Indian Coast Guard|ICGS]] ''Tarabai'' to chase and capture a [[Panama]]nian-registered [[Japan]]ese cargo ship carrying aluminum ingots, ''MV Alondra Rainbow'', that had been hijacked by pirates off [[Indonesia]]. The operation took place off the coast of [[Kochi]].<ref name=saa-alondra>{{cite web |url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers14%5Cpaper1379.html |title=Alondra Rainbow revisited, A Study of related issues in the light of the recent judgment of Mumbai High Court |access-date=2012-05-03 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128110221/http://southasiaanalysis.org/papers14/paper1379.html |archive-date=28 November 2010 }}</ref><br />
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==Collision==<br />
On 21 April 2006 INS ''Prahar'' collided with the container ship MV ''Rajiv Gandhi'', and sank off the coast of [[Goa]]. No one was injured in the accident. The commanding officer of the ship, [[Lieutenant Commander]] Yogesh Tripathi was found guilty of negligence by an Indian Navy [[court-martial]], and dismissed from service.<ref name=ie-courtmartial>{{cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/ins-prahar-mishap-captain-found-guilty-of-navigational-error-sacked/13873/0|title=INS Prahar mishap: Captain found guilty of navigational error, sacked |website=The Indian Express}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Corvettes_of_the_Indian_Navy}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prahar (K98)}}<br />
[[Category:Veer-class corvettes]]<br />
[[Category:Corvettes of the Indian Navy]]<br />
[[Category:Ships sunk in collisions]]<br />
[[Category:Maritime incidents in India]]<br />
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 2006]]<br />
[[Category:1995 ships]]</div>
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