A fireplace broke out aboard the Indian Navy’s multi-role frigate INS Brahmaputra, resulting in the vessel itemizing severely to at least one facet and the disappearance of a junior sailor. The incident occurred on the night of 21 July whereas the ship was present process refit on the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
About INS Brahmaputra — India’s Indigenously Constructed Multi-Position Frigate
INS Brahmaputra, commissioned into the Indian Navy on 14 April 2000, is the primary of the indigenously constructed ‘Brahmaputra’ class guided missile frigates. The ship boasts a displacement of 5,300 tonnes, a size of 125 metres, and a beam of 14.4 metres, with a functionality to exceed speeds of 27 knots, in response to the Indian Navy.
It’s manned by a crew of 40 officers and 330 sailors and is supplied with an array of weapons together with medium-range, close-range, and anti-aircraft weapons, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, and torpedo launchers.
Moreover, the ship is outfitted with complete sensors and may function Seaking and Chetak helicopters, permitting it to undertake numerous roles akin to coastal and offshore patrolling, maritime diplomacy, counter-terrorism, and anti-piracy operations, as per the Navy.
INS Brahmaputra performed a key function in Operation Sukoon in July 2006 underneath the command of Capt Kapil Gupta through the Lebanon battle. The Indian Navy launched Operation Sukoon to evacuate Indian, Sri Lankan, and Nepalese nationals, in addition to Lebanese residents with Indian spouses, from the battle zone through the 2006 Lebanon Warfare.
Named after the outstanding ‘Brahmaputra’ river in North Japanese India, INS Brahmaputra carries a crest depicting a grey-coloured, one-horned Indian rhinoceros towards a background of white and blue sea waves.
The ship’s battle cry, “Dushman ko Khatra, Jab aage Brahmaputra,” interprets to “The enemy faces grave hazard when Brahmaputra leads the fray,” signifying its formidable spirit.
It should be famous that the Indian Navy has a convention of rechristening ships with the identical identify. The outdated Brahmaputra was commissioned on March 23, 1958 and served the Indian Navy effectively until her decommissioning on 30 June 1986. Initially ordered for the British Navy because the Panther, outdated Brahmaputra served within the 1965 and 1971 Wars within the Western and Japanese seaboard, respectively. She was the primary main warship to be in-built a British yard for the Indian Navy since India’s independence.
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Fireplace Aboard INS Brahmaputra At Naval Dockyard In Mumbai
An official release from the Indian Navy detailed the sequence of occasions, stating, “A fireplace had damaged out on board Indian Naval Ship Brahmaputra, a multi-role frigate, on the night of July 21 whereas she was present process refit at Naval Dockyard Mumbai.” The crew, with help from dockyard firefighters and different ships within the harbour, managed to regulate the fireplace by the morning of twenty-two July. Subsequently, sanitisation checks have been performed to evaluate residual dangers.
Nonetheless, the ship skilled extreme itemizing to its port facet on the afternoon of twenty-two July. Regardless of efforts to stabilise it, the vessel continued to checklist additional and is now resting on one facet. The discharge additional famous, “All of the personnel have been accounted for besides one junior sailor, for whom the search is in progress. An inquiry has been ordered by the Indian Navy to analyze the accident.”