Tuesday 24 March 2015

3 Immediate Support Vessels join Navy to protect offshore assets

Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command Vice Admiral Satish Soni unveiling the plaque of the Immediate Support Vessel IN ISV T 39 after he commissioned the vessel along with two other ISVs at Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday - Photo: K.R. Deepak

IN ISV T38, IN ISV T39 and IN ISV T40 – joined the 84th ISV Squadron of the Indian Navy in the Eastern Naval Command. The second batch of the three ISVs was commissioned by Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command Vice Admiral Satish Soni at a ceremony held at the Naval Dockyard here on Tuesday.

With this the Eastern Naval Command has its full complement of six ISVs. The project is a joint collaboration between Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the ship builders and the Indian Navy.

The ISVs would be based at Visakhapatnam and by turn two ISVs would be patrolling the nation’s assets in Offshore Development Area off Kakinada, Vice Admiral Satish Soni said.