INS Beas (F137)

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| Ship country = India

| Ship flag = {{Shipboxflag|India|naval-1950}}

| Ship name = INS Beas

| Ship owner = Government of India

| Ship namesake = Beas River

| Ship ordered = 1954

| Ship builder = Vickers-Armstrongs Shipbuilders Limited, Newcastle upon Tyne

| Ship laid down = 29 November 1956

| Ship launched = 9 October 1958

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| Ship completed= 24 May 1960

| Ship decommissioned = 1988

| Ship in service = 1960-1988

| Ship out of service = 1988

| Ship struck = 1988

| Ship identification = F137, F37

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| Ship fate = Scrapped 1992

| Ship notes = First of two Leopard Class ships built for India and not transferred from Royal Navy

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| Ship class = {{sclass|Leopard|frigate}}

| Ship displacement =*{{convert|2300|LT|t|0|lk=in}} standard

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| Ship length = {{convert|103.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a

| Ship beam = {{convert|12.2|m|ftin}}

| Ship draught = {{convert|3.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

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| Ship propulsion =*8 × Admiralty Standard Range ASR1 diesels, {{convert|14400|shp|0|abbr=on}}, 2 shafts

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| Ship range = {{convert|7500|nmi|abbr=on}}

| Ship complement = 210

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INS Beas was a {{sclass|Leopard|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

In 1954, the British Admiralty ordered the sixth anti-aircraft frigate of the {{sclass|Leopard|frigate|0}} for the Indian order as INS Beas.Gardiner, Robert Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1995, {{ISBN|0-85177-605-1}} page 174.

She carried pennant number F137,{{Cite book |title = Jane's Fighting Ships 1975-76 | publisher = Franklin Watts |date = 1975 |isbn = 0-531-03251-5 |pages=170}} in 1980s changed to F37.{{cite book|date=1986|isbn=0-7106-0828-4|pages=246|publisher=Jane’s Publishing Company|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1986-87}}

Service

=1971 war=

Beas took part in amphibious landings at Cox's Bazar alongside her sister ship {{INS|Brahmaputra|1957|6}}, landing divers in advance of the landing and providing gunfire support to the landings.

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