Mumbai Jan 28 PTI 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 FridayIn 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 museumThe 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 stationedINS Khukri the lead ship of the Indian Navys Khukri class corvettes and an indigenous surface-to-surface missile-fitted vessel had the distinction of being part of both the Western and Eastern FleetsA ship never dies it is said She is re-born in a new avatar In fact the decommissioned vessel is the second ship of the Navy to carry the name INS Khukri the first having been lost during the 1971 Indo-Pak War off the coast of DiuThe valiant crew of that ship led by late Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla has been immortalised in the Khukri Memorial at Diu the navy statement saidBuilt by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders the ship was commissioned on August 23 1989 in Mumbai by Krishna Chandra Pant then Defence minister and Sudha Mulla wife of late Capt Mahendra Nath MullaThe ship commenced her last journey under tow by navy ships from Visakhapatnam and arrived at Diu on January 14 PTI PR KRK KRK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 25 (ANI): Khukri, the lead ship of the Indian Navy's Khukri class corvettes and an indigenous surface-to-surface missile fitted vessel that had the distinction of being part of both, the Western and Eastern Fleets, is scheduled to be handed over to the Diu Administration on January 26, 2022, said a press release.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu [India], January 17 (ANI): INS Khukri, the first indigenously built missile corvette that was decommissioned after 32 years of service in December last year, reached Diu on Sunday.

Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 24 (ANI): INS Khukri, the first of the indigenously built missile corvettes, was decommissioned "after 32 years of glorious service" on Thursday.