Decommissioned Warship INS Khukri To Be Turned Into Museum
NDTV
INS Khukri, the lead ship of Indian Navy's Khukri class corvettes and an indigenous surface-to-surface missile-fitted vessel, had the distinction of being part of both the Western and Eastern Fleets.
Decommissioned warship 'Khukri' has been handed over to the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DNHDD) administration and would be converted into a museum, the Indian Navy said on Friday.
In a ceremony at the INS Khukri Memorial at Diu two days ago, Rear Admiral Ajay Vinay Bhave, Flag Officer Doctrine and Concepts, handed over the corvette to Praful Patel, administrator of the Union Territory of DNHDD and Lakshadweep, a navy release said.
The Diu administration is planning to convert the Khukri, the first indigenously built missile corvette of the navy, into a public museum.
The museum will be set up at the existing Khukri Memorial where the scaled-down version of the first INS Khukri (F149), a Blackwood class anti-submarine frigate, is also stationed.
