Press Release No. 11
13 February 2007
Indian Navy Ship INS Tarangini visits Egypt
INS TARANGINI, the Indian Navy’s sole sail training ship, will be visiting Alexandria, Egypt from 16 to 19 February 2007. The ship was built at Goa Shipyard limited and commissioned on 11 Nov 97. In Hindi the word ‘Tarang’ means the waves, thus the ship is aptly called as ‘TARANGINI’.
The ship is built for world wide operations and carries 20 sails with a total sail area of almost 1000 square meters. The ship has high endurance and can remain at sea continuously for a period of over 20 days. She has a complement of seven officers & 43 sailors as permanent crew and can accommodate 30 cadets at a time for sail training. INS TARANGINI forms part of the 1st Training Squadron based at Kochi under the aegis of Indian Navy’s Southern Naval Command.
INS TARANGINI is the first commissioned ship in the Indian Navy to have circumnavigated the globe from 23 January 2003 to 25 April 2004, during which period it called at 37 ports in 18 countries (including Egypt) covering 34,923 nautical miles. The ship undertook another noteworthy voyage across the high seas of Europe from 21 April 2005 to 06 November 2005 with the aim of “Strengthening the Bridges of Friendships across the Seas”, calling on 16 ports in 13 countries (including Egypt).
INS TARANGINI is currently on its way to participate in the “Tall Ships Challenge Series 2007” organized by American Sail Training Association on the Atlantic Coast of North America. The ship would be calling at 23 ports in 16 countries during this venture. A total of 07 officers, 40 sailors, and 255 Indian Naval Cadets and 40 foreign cadets (including one from Egyptian Navy) would be participating in various phases of this ambitious voyage.
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