INS Beas (F137)

INS Beas was a Leopard-class frigate of the Indian Navy. She was launched by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1958 and completed in 1960. Beas served in the Battle at Mormugão harbour 1961 and 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 Leopard-class frigate for the Indian order as INS Beas.

She carried pennant number F137, in 1980s changed to F37.

1971 war
Beas took part in amphibious landings at Cox's Bazar alongside her sister ship INS Brahmaputra (1957), landing divers in advance of the landing and providing gunfire support to the landings.