History | |
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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 |
Struck: | 1988 |
Fate: | Scrapped 1992 |
Status: | Dismantled and ship's name transferred to new ship INS Beas (2000) |
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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