| INS Ganga (D94) | |
|---|---|
 HMS Chiddingfold on completion | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | HMS Chiddingfold (L31) |
| Ordered: | 4 September 1939 |
| Builder: | Scotts at Greenock |
| Laid down: | 1 March 1940 |
| Launched: | 10 March 1941 |
| Commissioned: | October 1941 |
| Fate: | Sold to Indian Navy |
| Career |  Indian Navy |
| Name: | INS Ganga (D94) |
| Namesake: | Ganga River (the Ganges) |
| Acquired: | April 1952 |
| Commissioned: | 18 June 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 1975 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Hunt class Type II |
| Displacement: |
1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load |
| Length: | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a |
| Beam: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion: |
2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp |
| Speed: |
27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full |
| Range: | 3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 164 |
| Armament: |
• 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX |
INS Ganga (D94) was a Type II Hunt class destroyer of the Indian Navy. She was leased from the Royal Navy in 1952, where she served in World War II as HMS Chiddingfold (L31).
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HMS Chiddingfold (L31) was ordered on 4 Sep 1939 under the 1939 War Emergency Build Programme. She was laid down as Job No. J1115.[1] She was commissioned around October 1941.
She earned battle honours in World War II for Norway, 1941 and English Channel, 1945.
Following the war, she was reduced to Reserve status early in 1946 and laid-up on 25 March 1946. In 1950 she was transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Harwich and remained there until 1952 when negotiations were in hand for lease to the Indian Navy.
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The lease of HMS Chiddingfold to India was announced on 17 June 1952. She underwent a refit by Messrs Crichton at Liverpool which was completed in June 1953.
She was commissioned as INS Ganga (D94) on 18 June 1953. The lease was extended in August 1956, and she was sold to India in April 1958.
She was deployed as a training ship until 1975, when she was struck from the active list, before being sold for scrapping.
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