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History
India
Name	INS Prahar
Builder	Goa Shipyard Limited
Launched	26 August 1995
Commissioned	1 March 1997
Identification	Pennant number: K98
Fate	Sunk in collision, in 2006
General characteristics
Class and type	Veer-class corvette
Displacement	455 tons (full load)
Length	56 m (184 ft)
Beam	10.5 m (34 ft)
Draught	2.5 m (8.2 ft)
Propulsion	COGAG
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range	1,650 mi (2,660 km)
Complement	41 (incl 5 officers)

INS Prahar (Assault) was a Veer-class corvette of the Indian Navy.

Operations

In October 1999, she assisted the IGCS Tarabai to chase and capture a Panamanian-registered Japanese cargo ship carrying aluminum ingots, MV Alondra Rainbow, that had been hijacked by pirates off Indonesia. The operation took place off the coast of Kochi.

Collision

On 21 April 2006 INS Prahar collided with the container ship MV Rajiv Gandhi, and sank off the coast of Goa. No one was injured in the accident. The commanding officer of the ship, Lieutenant Commander Yogesh Tripathi was found guilty of negligence by an Indian Navy court-martial, and dismissed from service.

References

1. "प्रहार - Wiktionary, the free dictionary".
2. "Surface Ships of Indian Navy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
3. "Alondra Rainbow revisited, A Study of related issues in the light of the recent judgment of Mumbai High Court". Archived from the original on 28 November 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
4. "INS Prahar mishap: Captain found guilty of navigational error, sacked". The Indian Express.

v t e Corvettes of the Indian Navy
Commissioned ships	Kamorta class Kamorta (P28) Kadmatt (P29) Kiltan (P30) Kavaratti (P31) Kora class Kora Kirch Kulish Karmuk Khukri class Kuthar Kirpan Khanjar Abhay class Abhay Veer class Vibhuti Vipul Vinash Vidyut Nashak Prabal Pralaya
Decommissioned ships	Flower class HMIS Gondwana HMIS Sind HMIS Mahratta HMIS Assam Bathurst class HMIS Punjab HMIS Bombay HMIS Bengal HMIS Madras Arnala class Arnala Androth Anjadip Andaman Amini Kamorta (P77) Kadmatt (P78) Kiltan (P79) Kavaratti (P80) Katchall Amindivi Durg class Vijaydurg Sindhudurg Hosdurg Veer class Veer Nirbhik Nipat Nirghat Prahar Nishank Abhay class Ajay Akshay Agray Khukri class Khukri Basset class HMIS Agra HMIS Ahmedabad HMIS Amritsar HMIS Baroda HMIS Berar HMIS Calcutta HMIS Cochin HMIS Cuttack HMIS Karachi HMIS Lahore HMIS Lucknow HMIS Madura HMIS Multan HMIS Nagpur HMIS Nasik HMIS Patna HMIS Peshawar HMIS Poona HMIS Quetta HMIS Rampur HMIS Shillong HMIS Travancore
Future ships	ASW-SWC INS Mahe INS Malwan INS Mangrol INS Arnala (P68) INS Androth (P69) 11 more ships NGMV 6 vessels
Footnotes Renamed as INS Bombay post republic. Renamed as INS Bengal post republic. Renamed as INS Madras post republic. Classified as Anti-Submarine Naval Trawlers

• Veer-class corvettes
• Corvettes of the Indian Navy
• Ships sunk in collisions
• Maritime incidents in India
• Maritime incidents in 2006
• 1995 ships