Class overview
Operators Indian Navy
Planned1
Active1
General characteristics
TypeSail Training Ship
Tons burthen110 tons
Length29 m
Beam8.5 m
Draught4 m
Propulsion2 x Kirloskar Cummins Diesel (320hp each)
Complement
  • Commanding Officers - 1
  • Officers - 5
  • Seamen - 6
  • Petty Officers - 4
  • Cadets - 21
Notes12 sails (6 square & 6 fore and aft sails)

INS Varuna (God of the Ocean) is India's first square rig sail training vessel of the Indian Navy incidentally also in Asia. Varuna was completed in April 1981 by Mazagon Dock Limited at Mumbai. It based at Kochi under the Southern Naval Command. It was commissioned on 20 April 1981 by the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral RL Pereira. [1][2]

Service history

INS Varuna has made several goodwill visit to various countries including Australia to participate in its bicentennial celebrations in January 1988, where it participated in "Tall Ship" race from Hobart to Sydney where 250 square-rigged ships were participant. [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Varuna Class". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  2. ^ Hiranandani, G.M. (2009). Transition to Eminence: The Indian Navy 1976-1990. Delhi: Lancer. p. 398. ISBN 978-8170622666.
  3. ^ Hiranandani, G. M. (2005). Transition to Eminence: The Indian Navy 1976-1990. ISBN 9788170622666.
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