INS Beas (1958)


INS Beas was a of the Indian Navy. She was launched by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1958 and completed in 1960. Beas served 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.

Service

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.