| History | |
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 India
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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 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1992 |
| Notes: | First of two Leopard Class ships built for India and not transferred from Royal Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | -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 -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 | edit source]
In 1954, the British Admiralty ordered the sixth anti-aircraft frigate of the -class for the Indian order as INS Beas.[1]
Service[edit | edit source]
1971 war[edit | edit source]
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 | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gardiner, Robert Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1995, ISBN 0-85177-605-1 page 174.