| History | |
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| Name: | INS Abhay |
| Commissioned: | 10 March 1989 |
| Status: | In Active Service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Abhay class corvette |
| Displacement: | 485 tons full load |
| Length: | 56.0 m (183.7 ft) |
| Beam: | 10.2 m (33 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.3 m (11 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 diesel motors with 16,184 hp and 2 shafts (Another report says 4 engines) |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h), (32 knots according to Jane's) |
| Range: | 2,400 mi (3,900 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 97 (incl. 7 officers), (Jane's lists 32, with 6 officers) |
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INS Abhay (P33) is the lead ship of her class of anti-submarine warfare corvettes, which are in service with the Indian Navy.
Abhay is Sanskrit for fearless. The ship was commissioned on 10 March 1989.[1]
References
- ↑ Abhay (Pauk II) class Archived 2009-07-03 at the Wayback Machine – Bharat-Rakshak. Retrieved on 2009-04-18
