INS Tarangini

INS Tarangini

INS "Tarangini" is a tall ship of the Indian Navy, commissioned in 1997 as a sail training ship for naval cadets."Tarangini" is a three-masted barque, square rigged on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen mast. She was constructed in Goa to a design by the British naval architect Colin Mudie, and launched on 1 December 1995.

INS Tarangini started its first circumnavigation of the globe in the year 2003-04 with the theme of ‘Building Bridges of Friendship across the Oceans’. [ [http://www.indiannavy.nic.in/tarangani_home.htm INS Tarangini Official website] ] During the fifteen month voyage, the ship covered convert|33000|nmi|km and visited 36 ports in 18 countries. The ship was received by the President Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam [ [http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/04/26/stories/2004042601171300.htm INS Tarangini back after voyage around the world] ]

On 10 January 2007, INS Tarangini started for another overseas voyage of ten month duration named Lokayan 07. In all the Tarangini will be calling on 23 ports in 16 countries on this voyage. The ship departed Kochi on 10th January 2007 and transited through the Suez Canal to reach the Atlantic Coast of North America. The ship participated in a series of Tall Ship events such as The World Peace Cup, Maritime Festival of Charleston, Sail Virginia, Sail Rhode Island and Sail Boston and returned to port on October 2007 after covering 22,000 nautical miles. [ [http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/30/stories/2007103057282200.htm A ship sails tall and proud] ]

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ee also

*Ships of the Indian Navy

References

External links

* [http://indiannavy.nic.in/ins_tarangini.htm Indian Navy – "INS Tarangini"]
* [http://mod.nic.in/samachar/dec1-03/html/ch3.htm "Tarangini:Waves Worldwide"]


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