The Indian Navy on Saturday commissioned its first of four Survey Vessel Large (SVL) ships, INS Sandhayak, at Visakhapatnam’s Naval Dockyard in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Naval staff Admiral R Hari Kumar.
#INSSandhayak, first of the Survey Vessel (Large) ships commissioned on #03Feb 24Indigenously designed & constructed, with #StateoftheArt eqpt, the ship carries forward the legacy of the erstwhile #Sandhayak,#IndianNavy‘s oldest Hydrographic Survey Ship.https://t.co/6WkIooEVkw pic.twitter.com/styASkIlSO— SpokespersonNavy (@indiannavy) February 3, 2024
Warning those involved in maritime piracy and smuggling will not be tolerated, Singh said that the SVL ship will go a long way in obtaining information about the oceans and achieving the twin objectives of protecting the nation and its people.
Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh today presided over the commissioning of INS Sandhayak – the 1st Survey Vessel Large (SVL) ship, into the @indiannavy in Visakhapatnam. (1/3)#INSSandhayakMore: https://t.co/HxFYVlkZtY@HQ_IDS_India@giridhararamane @OfficialGRSE @PIB_India pic.twitter.com/IKtgvGVupX
— A. Bharat Bhushan Babu (@SpokespersonMoD) February 3, 2024
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INS SANDHAYAK
- Constructed at the Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, INS Sandhayak is the first of four in the Survey Vessel Large (SVL) ships series.
- The primary role of the Navy’s first SVL is to carry out full scale hydrographic surveys of ports, harbours, navigational channels, routes, coastal areas and deep seas to enable safe marine navigation.
- INS Sandhayak has a displacement of 3,400 tonnes and a length of 110 metres with a beam of 16 metres.
- It is equipped with state-of-the-art hydrographic equipment, including deep sea and shallow water multibeam echo sounders, autonomous underwater vehicles and others.
- INS Sandhayak also features side scan sonars, data acquisition and processing system, remotely operated vehicle, and other advanced features which contain about 80 per cent indigenous content.
- The ship is also capable of serving as a hospital ship during wartime or emergencies, a Hindustan Times report said.
- Sandhayak is powered by two diesel engines and has a speed capacity which exceeds 18 knots.
- This is a restored version of the Navy’s oldest Hydrographic survey vessel, also named Sandhayak, a vessel which was decommissioned in 2021.
- Additionally, the vessel services the requirements of both defence and civil application by gathering and providing oceanographic and geophysical data.
- The vessel’s name, ‘Sandhayak’, means the one who carries out a special search. The crest depicts the 16 points of a mariner’s compass, enclosing a ‘divider’ and an ‘anchor’ riding the sea, symbolising the charting of oceans, which is the basic role of the survey ship.
- This project was guided by the Warship Design Bureau of the Indian Navy.
(With PTI inputs)
Comments
0 comment