The IRS class of tugboats are a series of Bollard pull tugboats built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam, for the Indian Navy.

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Class overview
Builders	Hindustan Shipyard Limited
Operators	Indian Navy
Built	3
Planned	3 + 4
Completed	4
Active	4
General characteristics
Type	50T bollard pull tugboat
Displacement	472 tons
Length	34.54 m (113 ft 4 in)
Beam	11.26 m (36 ft 11 in)
Draught	4.49 m (14 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 x Wartsila Italia Spa Type W8L26 engines generating 2.4 MW power to drive Voith Schneider propulsion unit
Speed	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)
Complement	13

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INS Sahas and INS Dhiraj tugs were flagged off by Commander (retd) K.S. Subramanian, the Director (shipbuilding) and INS Himmat was flagged off by Rear Admiral (Retd) N K Mishra, NM Chairman & Managing Director of HSL. The vessels were built under special survey of IRS Steel ship rules and as such were assigned with IRS class notation.^[1][2] Contracts for 4 additional similar tugboats were signed between HSL and Indian Navy in November 2019. The keel of the first two tugboats Veeran and Balaram were laid on November 15, 2019. ^[3] The new tugboats are to be stationed at Visakhapatnam, the future home base of INS Vikrant to handle the aircraft carrier once it is commissioned into Indian Navy in 2022. ^{[4] [5]}

Each of these tugboats can achieve 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) against a design speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) at 85% maximum continuous rating. Bollard pull of all the vessels is in excess of 54 tonnes almost 10% in excess of specifications.^[6][7]

INS Himmat, INS Sahas and INS Dhiraj serve with the Western Naval Command at Karwar. These vessels are primarily meant to handle the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya which is based in Karwar since early 2014.^[8]

• Tugboats of the Indian Navy