INS Godavari (F20)

History
INS Godavari
India
Name:	INS Godavari
Namesake:	Godavari River
Builder:	Mazagon Dock Limited
Laid down:	3 November 1978
Launched:	15 May 1980
Commissioned:	10 December 1983
Decommissioned:	23 December 2015
Status:	Awaiting disposal.^[1]
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Godavari-class frigate
Displacement:	3600 tons standard, 3850 tons full load
Length:	126.4 m (414 ft 8 in)
Beam:	14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
Draught:	4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	2 turbines with 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) motors; 2 550 psi boilers; 2 shafts
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h)
Range:	4,500 mi (7,200 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement:	313 (incl. 40 Officers & 13 Aircrew)
Sensors and processing systems:	1 × Signaal D-band radar 1 × MR-310U Angara (NATO: Head Net-C) E-band radar 2 × Signaal ZW06 or Don Kay I-band radars for navigation Bharat APSOH hull mounted sonar, Fathoms Oceanic VDS and Type 162M sonar
Armament:	4 × P-20M (SS-N-2D Styx) AShMs in single-tube launchers Barak SAM system 2 × 57 mm (twin) guns at 90° elevation 4 × AK-230 30 mm gunmounts with 85° elevation (in CIWS role only) 6 × 324mm ILAS 3 torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or NST 58 anti-submarine torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	2 helicopters Sea King Mk.42B or HAL Chetak

INS Godavari (F20) was the lead ship of her class of guided-missile frigates of the Indian Navy. Built by Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai, she was the first Indian warship to be indigenously designed and built.^[2] She was commissioned on 10 December 1983, and decommissioned on 23 December 2015 after a 32-year career.^[3]^[4]

History

During the mid-1970s, the Navy's Directorate of Naval Design developed a concept for the next generation of frigates, which would supplant the British-designed Nilgiri-class frigates. The new Godavari-class frigates would be the first indigenously designed and built frigates, with vastly improved speed and firepower. As the lead ship of her class, Godavari was laid down on 3 November 1978 by the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Jal Cursetji, and was launched on 15 May 1980. She was commissioned on 10 December 1983.^[5]

Operations

Notable operations involving INS Godavari include Operation Jupiter in 1988 (Sri Lanka), Operation Shield and Operation Bolster in 1994 (de-induction of Indian Army from Somalia), Patrol of Gulf of Aden (PoG) in 2009, and 2011 anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden.^[2]

Operation Cactus

In 1988, following an attempted coup d'état against Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom by Sri Lankan mercenaries, India launched Operation Cactus to restore the democratically elected government. After Indian paratroopers restored the presidency, the mercenaries captured Maldivian hostages on board a freighter and fled towards Sri Lanka. INS Godavari and INS Betwa successfully intercepted the freighter, rescued the hostages and arrested the mercenaries off the Sri Lankan coast.^[6]

UNOSOM II

While the UN Security Council Resolution 954, extended the UN mandate for UNOSOM II in Somalia to March 1995, the United States and other NATO members of the mission abandoned the peacekeeping effort and withdrew from Somalia over a year earlier. As the mission approached its scheduled end, the situation on the ground continued to deteriorate. With no other international support forthcoming, INS Godavari along with INS Ganga and INS Shakti were deployed to Mogadishu in December 1994 to support the withdrawal of the Indian Army's 66 Brigade, including the 2nd Battalion, Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry (2 JAKLI).^[7]

Incidents

Pakistan Naval Ship Babur brushed with INS Godavari in June 2011 while escorting Egyptian ship MV Suez. This incident triggered a diplomatic row between India and Pakistan.^[8]

Fate

In 2014, a naval review board decided Godavari would be decommissioned the following year. After 32 years of service, she was decommissioned on 23 December 2015.^[4] A senior naval official said she would first be stripped of her weaponry and any salvageable fittings, and then most likely be sunk as a target ship.^[9]

References

↑ "INS Godavari sets sail into the sunset after three decades". Times of India. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
1 2 "India's first indigenously designed and built Frigate INS Godavari to be Decommissioned". indiannavy.nic.in. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
↑ Bedi (20 April 2015). "India launches first-of-class Project 15B destroyer". IHS Jane's 360. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
1 2 "INS Godavari sets sail into the sunset after three decades". Times of India. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
↑ "India's first indigenously designed and built Frigate INS Godavari to be Decommissioned". Indian Navy. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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↑ ""Godavari, 1st indigenously designed warship, calls it a day"". Brahmand.com. 24 December 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

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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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