INS Kesari (2005)
INS Kesari is a Shardul-class tank landing ship of the Indian Navy.[1][3][4]
 INS Kesari (L15) during Milan 2018 exercise | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 India | |
| Name | INS Kesari[1] |
| Namesake | Gir lion |
| Builder | Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers |
| Launched | 8 June 2005 |
| Commissioned | 5 April 2008 |
| Homeport | Port Blair |
| Identification |
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| Status | In active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Shardul-class tank landing ship |
| Displacement | 5650 tons |
| Length | 125 m (410 ft) |
| Beam | 17.5 m (57 ft) |
| Draught | 4 m (13 ft) |
| Propulsion | Kirloskar PA6 STC engines[2] |
| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Capacity |
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| Troops | 500 |
| Complement | 11 officers, 145 sailors |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | Chaff launchers |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 Westland Sea King or HAL Dhruv |
History
The ship was launched by Sandhya Prasad, wife of Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Yashwant Prasad.[5]
In 2009, INS Kesari was transferred from the Eastern Naval Command in Vishakhapatnam to Port Blair.[6]
In March 2014, the ship, under the command of Commander Mahesh Mangipudi, was involved in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean region.[7]
References
- Archived 19 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- "INS Kesari". ABS Eagle. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- "Surface Ships". Indian Navy. Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- "Shardul Class". Indian Navy. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- "New state-of-art vessel joins Navy". Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- Archived 15 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- "Plane-hunt armada steams towards India's backyard". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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