1968 Indian stamp depicting sister ship INS Nilgiri
History
India
Name	INS Himgiri
Namesake	Himgiri Range
Launched	6 May 1970
Commissioned	23 November 1974
Decommissioned	6 May 2005
Fate	Decommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type	Nilgiri-class frigate
Displacement	2682 tons (standard) 2962 tons (full load)
Length	113 m (371 ft)
Beam	13 m (43 ft)
Draught	4.3 m (14 ft)
Propulsion	2 × 550 psi boilers 2 × 30,000 hp (22,000 kW) motors
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	267 (incl 17 officers)[1]
Sensors and processing systems	Signaal DA05 / BEL PFN513 radar Signaal LW08 / BEL RAWL02 surface radar Signaal ZW06 / BEL RASHMI navigation radar Signaal M-45 navigation radar Westinghouse SQS-505 / Graesby 750 sonar Type 170 active attack sonar
Armament	2 × MK.6 Vickers 115 mm guns 4 × AK-230 30 mm guns 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns 2 × triple ILAS 3 324 mm torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S or the Indian NST-58 torpedoes
Aircraft carried	1 Westland Sea King or HAL Chetak

INS Himgiri (F34) was a Nilgiri-class frigate of the Indian Navy. Himgiri was commissioned into the Navy on 23 November 1974. She was decommissioned on 6 May 2005.

A new ship with this name belonging to the new Nilgiri class was launched in December 2020.^[2]

INS Himgiri holds the record for the number of days at sea in a single deployment for a conventional ship of the Indian Navy. In 1976, she was the first ship of the Indian Navy to shoot down a pilotless aircraft.

v t e Leander-class frigates
Royal Navy	Achilles Ajax Andromeda Apollo Arethusa Ariadne Argonaut Aurora Bacchante Charybdis Cleopatra Danae Dido Diomede Euryalus Galatea Hermione Juno Jupiter Leander Minerva Naiad Penelope Phoebe Scylla Sirius
Royal Australian Navy Part of River class	Swan Torrens
Chilean Navy Condell class	Almirante Condell Almirante Lynch Ministro Zenteno (ex-Achilles) General Baquedano (ex-Ariadne)
Indian Navy Nilgiri class	Nilgiri Himgiri Udaygiri Dunagiri Taragiri Vindhyagiri Krishna (ex-Andromeda)
Royal Netherlands Navy Van Speijk class	Van Speijk Van Galen Tjerk Hiddes Van Nes Isaac Sweers Evertsen
Royal New Zealand Navy	Canterbury Southland (ex-Dido) Waikato Wellington (ex-Bacchante)
Other operators  Ecuadorian Navy Eloy Alfaro (ex-Penelope) Eloy Alfaro (ex-Almirante Condell) Morán Valverde (ex-Danae) Morán Valverde (ex-Almirante Lynch)  Indonesian Navy Ahmad Yani class Ahmad Yani (ex-Tjerk Hiddes) Slamet Riyadi (ex-Van Speijk) Yos Sudarso (ex-Van Galen) Oswald Siahaan (ex-Van Nes) Abdul Halim Perdanakusuma (ex-Evertsen) Karel Satsuitubun (ex-Isaac Sweers)  Pakistan Navy Zulfiqar (ex-Apollo) Shamsher (ex-Diomede)
Preceded by: Rothesay class Followed by: Blackwood class
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v t e 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 (1994) Betwa (F39) Beas (F37)
Decommissioned ships	Frigates River class HMIS Neza HMIS Dhanush[a] HMIS Shamsher[b] HMIS Kukri[c] HMIS Hooghly[d] HMIS Tir[e] Blackwood class Khukri Kirpan[f] Kuthar[g] Whitby class Talwar (F140) Trishul (F143) Leopard class Brahmaputra (1957) Beas (1958) Betwa (1959) Nilgiri class Nilgiri Himgiri Udaygiri Dunagiri Vindhyagiri Taragiri Leander class Krishna Godavari class Godavari Ganga Gomati Sloops[h] Anchusa class HMIS Elphinstone P class HMIS Baluchi HMIS Pathan Grimsby class HMIS Indus Aubrietia class HMIS Cornwallis Black Swan class HMIS Narbada[i] HMIS Godavari[j] HMIS Cauvery[k] HMIS Sutlej[l] HMIS Jumna[m] HMIS Kistna[n] Hastings class HMIS Hindustan[o] Other sloops HMIS Clive HMIS Lawrence
Future ships	Project 17A class INS Nilgiri INS Udaygiri INS Taragiri INS Himgiri INS Dunagiri INS Vindhyagiri INS Mahendragiri
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 Hooghly post republic. ^ Renamed as INS Tir post republic. ^ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978. ^ Transferred to Indian Coast Guard in 1978. ^ Later reclassified as frigates ^ 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.