Built in Mumbai by Mazagon Dock Limited, she was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 30 December 1985.

[3] INS Ganga was commissioned on 30 December 1985 while berthed on the South Breakwater, Naval Dockyard, Mumbai (the called Bombay).

[4] While the UN Security Council Resolution 954, extended the UN mandate for UNOSOM II in Somalia to March 1995, the United States and other NATO members of the mission abandoned the peacekeeping effort and withdrew from Somalia over a year earlier.

As the mission approached its scheduled end, the situation on the ground continued to deteriorate.

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