INS Beas (F137)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image = |Ship caption = }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | 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 | Ship acquired = | 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 | Ship honours = | Ship fate = Scrapped 1992 | Ship notes = First of two Leopard Class ships built for India and not transferred from Royal Navy }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = {{sclass|Leopard|frigate}} | Ship displacement =*{{convert|2300|LT|t|0|lk=in}} standard
| 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}} | Ship draft = | Ship propulsion =*8 × Admiralty Standard Range ASR1 diesels, {{convert|14400|shp|0|abbr=on}}, 2 shafts | Ship speed = {{convert|25|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}} | Ship range = {{convert|7500|nmi|abbr=on}} | Ship complement = 210 | Ship sensors = |Ship armament=*2 × twin 4.5 in guns Mark 6
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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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