New Delhi: The Indian Navy’s indigenously designed and built Hydrographic survey ship – INS Sandhayak will be decommissioned on June 4 after serving the nation for 40 years.
The decommissioning ceremony of INS Sandhayak will be held at the Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam.
In a special ceremony, only in-station officers and sailors will be allowed to attend the function due to strict Covid-19 protocols will be followed.
INS Sandhayak remained very helpful to the Indian Navy in military transport and casualty-carrying vessels in times of war and natural disasters.
The ship has conducted approximately 200 major hydrographic surveys and was a part of several minor surveys on the east and west coasts of the country, the Andaman Sea, and several neighbouring countries.
Apart from survey missions, it has been an active participant in many important missions. During Operation Pawan, the ship assisted the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka in 1987.
After the 2004 tsunami under Operation Sarong and Operation Rainbow, the ship performed humanitarian aid work. It also participated in the earlier joint Indo-US HADR exercise ‘Tiger-Triumph’.
