INS Khukri (F149)
INS Khukri underway | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Indian Navy | |
| Name | INS Khukri |
| Namesake | Khukri |
| Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
| Laid down | 29 December 1955 |
| Launched | 20 November 1956 |
| Commissioned | 16 July 1958 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F149 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by Pakistan Navy submarine PNS Hangor on 9 December 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Blackwood-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,180 long tons (1,199 t) full load |
| Length | 300 ft (91 m)pp 310 ft (94 m)oa |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 15.5 ft (4.7 m) |
| Propulsion | Y-100 plant; 2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, steam turbines on 1 shaft, 15,000 shp (11 MW) |
| Speed | 27.8 knots (51 km/h) maximum, 24.5 knots (45 km/h) sustained |
| Range | 5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 150 |
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INS Khukri was a Type 14 (Blackwood-class) frigate of the Indian Navy. She was sunk off the coast of Diu, Gujarat, India by the Pakistan Navy Daphné-class submarine Hangor on 9 December 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It was the first warship sunk in action by a submarine since World War II. It is the post-independence Indian navy's only warship to have been lost in war.