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 and 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
Sensors and ; processing systems	Radar Type 974 navigation; Sonar Type 174 search; Sonar Type 162 target classification; Sonar Type 170 targeting;
Armament	3 × 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7 (quarterdeck mount later removed); 2 × Limbo Mark 10 A/S mortars;

Sinking of INS Khukri
	Part of the Naval Conflict of Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
Date	9 December 1971
Location	Arabian sea
Result	INS Khukhri sank
Belligerents
Pakistan Pakistan Navy	India Indian Navy
Commanders and leaders
Commander Ahmed Tasnim	Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla †
Strength
PNS Hangor (submarine)	INS Khukri (frigate); INS Kirpan (frigate)
Casualties and losses
None	INS Khukri sunk; 194;

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. This was the first warship sunk in action by a submarine since World War II. It remains the post-independence Indian navy's only warship to be lost in war.

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