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Nilgiri-class frigate of the Indian Navy For other ships with the same name, see INS Himgiri.

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History
1968 Indian stamp depicting sister ship INS Nilgiri
India
Name	INS Himgiri
Namesake	Himgiri Range
Launched	6 May 1970
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)
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.

A new ship with this name belonging to the new Nilgiri class was launched in December 2020.

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

"Surface Ships -->Frigates-->Giri Class". Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
Team, BS Web (14 December 2020). "In pictures: GRSE-built stealth frigate 'INS Himgiri' launched in Kolkata". Business Standard India.

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

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

Frigates of the Indian Navy

Commissioned ships

Shivalik class	Shivalik Satpura Sahyadri
Talwar class	Talwar (F40) Trishul (F43) Tabar Teg Tarkash Trikand Tushil
Brahmaputra class	Brahmaputra (1994) Betwa (F39) Beas (F37)

Decommissioned ships

Frigates

River class	HMIS Neza HMIS Dhanush HMIS Shamsher HMIS Kukri HMIS Hooghly HMIS Tir
Blackwood class	Khukri Kirpan Kuthar
Whitby class	Talwar (F140) Trishul (F143)
Leopard class	Brahmaputra (1957) Beas (1958) Betwa (1959)
Nilgiri class	Nilgiri Himgiri Udaygiri Dunagiri Vindhyagiri Taragiri
Leander class	Krishna
Godavari class	Godavari Ganga Gomati

Sloops

Anchusa class	HMIS Elphinstone
P class	HMIS Baluchi HMIS Pathan
Grimsby class	HMIS Indus
Aubrietia class	HMIS Cornwallis
Black Swan class	HMIS Narbada HMIS Godavari HMIS Cauvery HMIS Sutlej HMIS Jumna HMIS Kistna
Hastings class	HMIS Hindustan
Other sloops	HMIS Clive HMIS Lawrence

Future ships

Nilgiri class	INS Nilgiri INS Udaygiri INS Taragiri INS Mahendragiri INS Himgiri INS Dunagiri INS Vindhyagiri
Project 17B class	7-8 ships

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 Hooghly post republic.
Renamed as INS Tir post republic.
Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978.
Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978.
Later reclassified as frigates
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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