NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A frontline Indian frigate, INS Brahmaputra, suffered in depth injury after it virtually keeled over as a result of flooding throughout fire-fighting operations to douse a serious blaze that erupted on board the warship on the naval dockyard in Mumbai on Sunday night.
A junior sailor is lacking after the mishap, which has as soon as once more raised severe questions on your complete planning and administration of refits at naval dockyards in addition to the “water-tight integrity and air-pressure checks” performed on warships.
“The guided-missile frigate is now resting on one facet on the jetty. It will likely be extraordinarily tough to salvage the warship,” an officer stated. A multi-role 3,850-tonne warship like INS Brahmaputra, which is full of weapons and sensors together with a crew of round 450 together with round 40 officers, would simply value upwards of Rs 6,000 crore.
After Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Okay Tripathi briefed defence minister Rajnath Singh in regards to the mishap on Monday night, an official stated, “The minister prayed for the protection of the lacking sailor. He additionally directed the Navy chief to take acceptable motion.” A board of inquiry has been ordered to establish your complete sequence of occasions and the explanations for the mishap.
INS Brahmaputra, which was commissioned in April 2000 after being constructed by defence shipyard Backyard Attain Shipbuilders and Engineers Restricted at Kolkata, was present process a refit on the naval dockyard when the fireplace broke out on board on Sunday night.
The fireplace was introduced below management by the warship’s crew with the help of fire-fighters from the naval dockyard, which was adopted by “sanitisation checks” for any residual dangers.
On Monday afternoon, nonetheless, the frigate started “itemizing” (when a ship takes in water and tilts to 1 facet) to the port facet as a result of water pumped into the vessel throughout the fire-fighting operations.
“Regardless of all efforts, the warship couldn’t be dropped at the upright place. The ship continued to listing additional alongside her berth and is resting on one facet at current,” one other officer stated. The junior sailor nonetheless to be accounted for most likely went lacking throughout the try to leap off the itemizing ship.
One other Brahmaputra-class frigate, INS Betwa, had slipped from her dock blocks, tilted after which crashed flat on her port facet whereas being undocked throughout a upkeep refit within the Mumbai naval dockyard on December 5, 2016. It had taken a herculean effort to make INS Betwa operational once more with the assistance of worldwide salvage specialists at a value of round Rs 20 crore.
The Navy had been hit by a string of accidents – virtually 40 of them – between 2007 to 2016. In February 2014, the then Navy chief Admiral D Okay Joshi had owned “ethical duty” and resigned after two severe accidents on board two submarines –INS Sindhurakshak and INS Sindhuratna — killed 5 officers and 15 sailors.
Reviews by the Comptroller and Auditor Basic of India, by the way, have punched a number of holes into the administration of refits of warships that happen within the two naval dockyards at Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and three naval ship restore yards at Port Blair, Kochi and Karwar.
A junior sailor is lacking after the mishap, which has as soon as once more raised severe questions on your complete planning and administration of refits at naval dockyards in addition to the “water-tight integrity and air-pressure checks” performed on warships.
“The guided-missile frigate is now resting on one facet on the jetty. It will likely be extraordinarily tough to salvage the warship,” an officer stated. A multi-role 3,850-tonne warship like INS Brahmaputra, which is full of weapons and sensors together with a crew of round 450 together with round 40 officers, would simply value upwards of Rs 6,000 crore.
After Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Okay Tripathi briefed defence minister Rajnath Singh in regards to the mishap on Monday night, an official stated, “The minister prayed for the protection of the lacking sailor. He additionally directed the Navy chief to take acceptable motion.” A board of inquiry has been ordered to establish your complete sequence of occasions and the explanations for the mishap.
INS Brahmaputra, which was commissioned in April 2000 after being constructed by defence shipyard Backyard Attain Shipbuilders and Engineers Restricted at Kolkata, was present process a refit on the naval dockyard when the fireplace broke out on board on Sunday night.
The fireplace was introduced below management by the warship’s crew with the help of fire-fighters from the naval dockyard, which was adopted by “sanitisation checks” for any residual dangers.
On Monday afternoon, nonetheless, the frigate started “itemizing” (when a ship takes in water and tilts to 1 facet) to the port facet as a result of water pumped into the vessel throughout the fire-fighting operations.
“Regardless of all efforts, the warship couldn’t be dropped at the upright place. The ship continued to listing additional alongside her berth and is resting on one facet at current,” one other officer stated. The junior sailor nonetheless to be accounted for most likely went lacking throughout the try to leap off the itemizing ship.
One other Brahmaputra-class frigate, INS Betwa, had slipped from her dock blocks, tilted after which crashed flat on her port facet whereas being undocked throughout a upkeep refit within the Mumbai naval dockyard on December 5, 2016. It had taken a herculean effort to make INS Betwa operational once more with the assistance of worldwide salvage specialists at a value of round Rs 20 crore.
The Navy had been hit by a string of accidents – virtually 40 of them – between 2007 to 2016. In February 2014, the then Navy chief Admiral D Okay Joshi had owned “ethical duty” and resigned after two severe accidents on board two submarines –INS Sindhurakshak and INS Sindhuratna — killed 5 officers and 15 sailors.
Reviews by the Comptroller and Auditor Basic of India, by the way, have punched a number of holes into the administration of refits of warships that happen within the two naval dockyards at Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and three naval ship restore yards at Port Blair, Kochi and Karwar.
