INS Beas was a of the Indian Navy. She was launched by Vickers-Armstrongs 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 for the Indian order as INS Beas.Gardiner, Robert Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1995, page 174.
She carried pennant number F137, in 1980s changed to F37.
Service
1965 War INS Beas was deployed to the Western Theatre during the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. She launched an unsuccessful depth charge attack on PNS Ghazi on 9 September, 1965.
1971 war Beas took part in amphibious landings at Cox's Bazar alongside her sister ship , landing divers in advance of the landing and providing gunfire support to the landings.
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