INS Kora (P61)

History
Name: INS Kora
Builder: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Laid down: 10 January 1990
Launched: 23 September 1992
Commissioned: 10 August 1998
Identification: Pennant number: P61
Status: in active service, as of 2016
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type: Kora-class corvette
Displacement: 1,400 tons full load
Length: 91.1 m (299 ft)
Beam: 10.5 m (34 ft)
Draught: 4.5 m (15 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 diesel motors with 14,400 hp
  • 2 shafts
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
Range: 4,000 mi (6,400 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement: 134 (incl 14 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 × MR 352 Pozitiv-E radar
  • Bharat 1245 navigation radar
  • Bharat Vympel IPN-10 combat data system
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 HAL Chetak or HAL Dhruv helicopter

INS Kora is the lead ship of her class of corvettes, currently in active service with the Indian Navy.[1]

INS Kora was on a goodwill visit to Singapore in 2001. On 31 October 2014, Kora was in collision with the cargo ship MV Madeleine Rickmers in the Bay of Bengal off Vishakhapatnam.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://indiannavy.nic.in/corvettes_kora.htm
  2. ↑ Hancock, Paul (31 October 2014). "INS KORA DAMAGED". Shipwrecklog. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
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