INS Himgiri

History

India
Name:	INS Himgiri
Namesake:	Himgiri Range
Commissioned:	23 November 1974
Decommissioned:	6 May 2005
Fate:	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type:	Nilgiri-class frigate
Displacement:	2682 tons (standard) 2962 tons (full load)
Length:	113 m (371 ft)
Beam:	13 m (43 ft)
Draught:	4.3 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:	2 × 550 psi boilers 2 × 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) motors
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range:	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	267 (incl 17 officers)^[1]
Sensors and processing systems:	Signaal DA05 / BEL PFN513 radar Signaal LW08 / BEL RAWL02 surface radar Signaal ZW06 / BEL RASHMI navigation radar Signaal M-45 navigation radar Westinghouse SQS-505 / Graesby 750 sonar Type 170 active attack sonar
Armament:	2 × MK.6 Vickers 115 mm guns 4 × AK-230 30 mm guns 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns 2 × triple ILAS 3 324 mm torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or the Indian NST-58 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	1 Westland Sea King or HAL Chetak

INS Himgiri (F34) was a Nilgiri-class frigate of the Indian Navy. Himgiri was commissioned into the Navy on 23 November 1974. She was decommissioned on 6 May 2005.

Operations

INS Himgiri holds the record for the number of days at sea in a single deployment for a conventional ship of the Indian Navy. In 1976, she was the first ship of the Indian Navy to shoot down a pilotless aircraft.

References

Leander-class frigates

Royal Navy

Royal Australian Navy
Part of River class

Chilean Navy
Condell class

Indian Navy
Nilgiri class

Royal Netherlands Navy
Van Speijk class

Van Speijk
Van Galen
Tjerk Hiddes
Van Nes
Isaac Sweers
Evertsen

Royal New Zealand Navy

Canterbury
Southland (ex-Dido)
Waikato
Wellington (ex-Bacchante)

Other operators

Ecuadorian Navy	Eloy Alfaro (ex-Penelope) Eloy Alfaro (ex-Almirante Condell) Morán Valverde (ex-Danae) Morán Valverde (ex-Almirante Lynch)

Indonesian Navy Ahmad Yani class	Ahmad Yani (ex-Tjerk Hiddes) Slamet Riyadi (ex-Van Speijk) Yos Sudarso (ex-Van Galen) Oswald Siahaan (ex-Van Nes) Abdul Halim Perdanakusuma (ex-Evertsen) Karel Satsuitubun (ex-Isaac Sweers)

Pakistan Navy	Zulfiqar (ex-Apollo) Shamsher (ex-Diomede)

Preceded by: Rothesay class
Followed by: Blackwood class

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Ship classes of the Indian Navy

Attack	Charlie ⁺ Akula-II Indian SSN ^*

Ballistic Missile	Arihant ^*

Conventional submarines

Midget submarines

Indian Navy Swimmer Delivery Vehicle ^*

Amphibious warfare ships

Research and survey vessels

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Minesweeper

Pondicherry

⁺ Decommissioned
^* Under construction/procurement
^** Proposed/Design phase
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Frigates of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

Shivalik class	Shivalik Satpura Sahyadri

Talwar class	Talwar (F40) Trishul (F43) Tabar Teg Tarkash Trikand

Brahmaputra class	Brahmaputra (F31) Betwa (F39) Beas (F37)

Godavari class	Ganga Gomati

Decommissioned ships

Frigates

River class	HMIS Tamar HMIS Neza HMIS Dhanush^{[lower-alpha 1]} HMIS Shamsher^{[lower-alpha 2]} HMIS Kukri^{[lower-alpha 3]} HMIS Bengal^{[lower-alpha 4]} HMIS Hooghly^{[lower-alpha 5]} HMIS Tir^{[lower-alpha 6]}

Blackwood class	Khukri Kirpan^{[lower-alpha 7]} Kuthar^{[lower-alpha 8]}

Whitby class	Talwar (F140) Trishul (F143)

Leopard class	Brahmaputra (1958) Beas (1960) Betwa (1960)

Nilgiri class	Nilgiri Himgiri Udaygiri Dunagiri Vindhyagiri Taragiri

Leander class	Krishna

Godavari class	Godavari

Sloops
(later reclassified
as frigates)

Anchusa class	HMIS Elphinstone

P class	HMIS Baluchi HMIS Pathan

Grimsby class	HMIS Indus

Aubretia class	HMIS Cornwallis

Black Swan class	HMIS Narbada^{[lower-alpha 9]} HMIS Godaveri^{[lower-alpha 10]} HMIS Cauvery^{[lower-alpha 11]} HMIS Sutlej^{[lower-alpha 12]} HMIS Jumna^{[lower-alpha 13]} HMIS Kistna^{[lower-alpha 14]}

Hastings class	HMIS Hindustan^{[lower-alpha 15]}

Other sloops	HMIS Clive HMIS Lawrence

Future ships

Project 17A class	7 ships planned (Names to be declared)

Footnotes

↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Dhanush.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Shamsher.
↑ Renamed as INS Kukri post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Bengal post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Hooghly post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Tir post republic.
↑ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978.
↑ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Jhelum.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Sind.
↑ Renamed as INS Kaveri post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Sutlej post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Jumuna post republic.
↑ Renamed as INS Krisna post republic.
↑ Transferred to Pakistan post-partition and served as PNS Karsaz.

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