INS Shakti (disambiguation)

INS Shakti is the name of three ships which served in the Indian Navy.^[1][2]

• The first Shakti, displacing 3,000 tonnes was of World War II vintage. It was acquired in November 1953, commissioned on 29 January 1954 and decommissioned on 31 December 1967.
• The second ship INS Shakti was a large ship built by a German yard. It was commissioned on 21 February 1976 and decommissioned on 21 July 2007, after more than 31 years of naval service.
• INS Shakti (A57), a modern Deepak class fleet tanker displacing 27,550 tonnes. It was commissioned in 2011.

References

1. Admiral Nirmal Verma, CNS commissions INS Shakti at Visakhapatnam
2. INS Shakti commissioned