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Nilakanta Krishnan. INS Shivaji is an Indian naval station located in Lonavala, Maharashtra, India. [2] It houses the Naval College of Engineering which trains officers of the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard. [3][4] It was commissioned on 15 February 1945 as HMIS Shivaji. [5] It is located close to the Bhushi Dam. [6]
Since a separate branch for Naval Electrical Engineering was formed in the Navy, the Naval Electrical Engineering school was founded in 1948 at Valsura. [4] On 26 January 1950, India became a republic and the name changed to INS Valsura. Commander D. H. R. Dadabhoy was the first Indian commanding officer.
List of active Indian Navy ships is a list of ships in active service with the Indian Navy. In service ships are taken from the official Indian Navy website. [ 1 ] As of April 2024, the Indian Navy possesses two aircraft carriers, one amphibious transport dock, four tank landing ships, 12 destroyers, 12 frigates, 2 nuclear-powered ballistic ...
The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy. As a blue-water navy, it operates significantly in the Persian Gulf Region, the Horn of Africa, the Strait of Malacca, and routinely conducts ...
Design. A white ensign, featuring the flag of Indiain the canton, and a navy bluefilled, gold-bordered octagon, enclosing the crest of the Indian Navy, located in the fly. The Indian Naval Ensign, also referred to as the Indian White Ensign, or Nishaan, is the naval ensignof the Indian Navy(IN), used aboard Indian naval vessels, shore ...
Website. INHS Sanjivani. INHS Sanjivani is a multi-speciality hospital of the Indian Navy at Kochi, Kerala under the Southern Naval Command. It is the largest military hospital in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. [ 2 ] It is the nodal hospital for ships and other naval units at Kochi. The hospital also provides medical cover and aid to ...
The Indian Navy currently operates three [ 1 ] commands — Western Naval Command located at Mumbai, Southern Naval Command located at Kochi and Eastern Naval Command located at Visakhapatnam. The Andaman and Nicobar Command, a unified Indian Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard Command was set up in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2001.
The Southern Naval Command is the Training Command of Indian Navy and is responsible for the training of all its personnel, both officers as well as sailors, from basic to advance stages. It has subsidiary units from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Lonavala in Maharashtra, Goa and in Orissa but the majority of training units are in Kochi.