Goa Shipyard Limited

Goa Shipyard Limited

Infobox_Company
company_name = Goa Shipyard Limited
company_
company_type = Public Sector
foundation = 1957
location =
key_people = Rear Admiral A K Handa, Chairman & Managing Director
industry = Ship building
products = Ships
subsid =
revenue = INR 1.52 billion (US$ 38 million)(2007)
homepage = [http://www.goashipyard.co.in/ Goa Shipyard]

Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) is one of India's leading shipyards. It is located on the West Coast of India at Vasco da Gama, Goa at coord|15|24|7.54|N|73|49|29.40|E|display=inline,title. It was established in 1957 to manufacture warships for the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard.

GSL is undergoing a modernizing of its yard to adapt to the latest technology in shipbuilding. To this purpose it is negotiating with well known shipbuilders for an arrangement to collaborate. To date it has built 167 vessels including barges, tugs, landing craft, offshore patrol vessels and other vessels for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard and for export to countries like Yemen.cite web
url = http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/goa-sy.htm
title = Goa Shipyard Ltd.
accessdate = 2007-12-14
publisher = Global Security.Org
]

A new slipway has been commissioned to take up major repair jobs of ships in the dry dock area. A damage control simulator and two double boom level luffing cranes for heavy lifting have been constructed.

Military ships built

GSL has built the following ships for military use: [cite web
url = http://www.goashipyard.co.in/html/frames.htm
title = Ships built by Goa Shipyard Limited
accessdate = 2007-12-13
publisher = Goa Shipyard
]

Landing craft Mark II

* "L34" - commissioned 28 January 1980
* "L33" - 1 December 1980
* "L35" - 11 December 1983
* "L36" - 18 July 1986
* "L37" - 18 October 1986
* "L38" - 10 December 1986
* "L39" - 25 March 1987 [cite web
url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Mk3LC.html
title = Mk.2 & Mk.3 LANDING CRAFT
accessdate = 2007-12-14
publisher = Bharat Rakshak
]

"Vikram" class offshore patrol vessel

* CGS "Varad" (40) - 19 July 1990
* CGS "Varaha" (41) - 19 July 1990 [cite web
url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Vikram.html
title = VIKRAM CLASS
accessdate = 2007-12-14
publisher = Bharat Rakshak
]

"Samar" class offshore patrol vessel

* CGS "Samar" (42) - 14 February 1996
* CGS "Sangram" (43) - 29 March 1997
* CGS "Sarang" (44) - 21 June 1999
* CGS "Sagar" (45) - 03 November 2003 [cite web
url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Samar.html
title = SAMAR CLASS
accessdate = 2007-12-14
publisher = Bharat Rakshak
]

"Tarantul I" class missile corvette

* INS "Vinash" (K47) - 20 November 1993
* INS "Vidyut" (K48) - 16 January 1995
* INS "Prahar" (K98) - 1 March 1997 Lost at sea on 22 April 2006 [cite web
url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Veer.html
title = VEER {TARANTUL I} CLASS
accessdate = 2007-12-14
publisher = Bharat Rakshak
]
* INS "Pralaya" (K91) - Missile Corvette 18 December 2002

Extra fast patrol vessel

* CGS "Sarojini Naidu" (229) - 11 November 2002
* CGS "Durgabai Deshmukh" (230) - 29 April 2003
* CGS "Kasturba Gandhi" (231) - 28 October 2005
* CGS "Aruna Asaf Ali" (232) - 28 January 2006
* CGS "Subhadra Kumari Chauhan" (233) - 28 April 2006 [cite web
url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/XFPV.html
title = EXTRA FAST PATROL VESSEL
accessdate = 2007-12-14
publisher = Bharat Rakshak
]

In 1997, GSL built the three-masted barque INS "Tarangini" for use as a training ship for the Indian Navy.

Other products

* Tugboat
* Surface effect ships
* Hovercrafts
* High speed aluminium hulled vessels
* Pollution control vessels
* Advanced deep sea commercial trawlers
* Fish factory vessels, Catamarans

ee also

* Cochin Shipyard
* Mazagon Dock Limited
* Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers

References


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