INS Sindhurakshak (S63)
-8edited.jpg) INS Sindhurakshak in Portsmouth in February 2013
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INS Sindhurakshak (S63) was a diesel-electric submarine for the Indian Navy . It belongs to the Sindhughosh class . It was built in Saint Petersburg and entered service in 1997.
period of service
Construction and overpass
During its construction, the boat was initially operated with the Russian registration B-477 and handed over to India on December 24, 1997. From that point on it was named Sindhurakshak and was identified as S63. The boat was transferred to India and stationed there in Mumbai .
Fire and modernization
In 2010, while the boat was at the Indian naval base Visakhapatnam , there was an explosion in the battery room caused by leaking hydrogen from one of the cells, in which one crew member died and two others were injured. The boat was then moved to Severodvinsk , where it arrived in August 2010 to be modernized for the 08773 project. The core of the modernization was the equipment of the boat for the use of cruise missiles of the type Klub-S , in addition there were modern radio and sonar systems of Russian and Indian designs. The work was completed at the end of 2012. After test shots with the new cruise missiles, the boat was handed over to the Indian Navy on January 26, 2013. The occupation began with the repatriation to Mumbai, which lasted until April 2013. The boat was surprised by a severe storm in shallow water off the Egyptian coast in March 2013 and the Egyptian Navy had to tow the boat into the port of Port Said .
accident
In the early morning of August 14, 2013, a fire broke out on board during the night shift. After about two hours, it triggered a severe explosion that damaged the pressure hull of the boat. So water penetrated into the hull and the submarine sank at its landing place on the seven meter deep harbor floor of the naval shipyard of Mumbai . The 18 crew members on board were killed. By September 11, 2013, 12 bodies had been recovered.
Elevation
The boat should be lifted by commercial salvage companies. To this end, a global tender was initiated. The contract was ultimately awarded to the Resolve Marine Group , which lifted the boat from the bottom of the harbor basin with several pontoons on June 3, 2014 . The boat is now to be examined to determine the cause of the explosion.
The cause of the accident was then investigated. According to the preliminary investigation report, the fire broke out because ammunition had exploded. The ammunition exploded during ammunition because safety rules were violated.
Whereabouts
The Sindhurakshak was not to be returned to service, but to be scrapped. In March 2017 she was removed from the fleet register and in June 2017 she was towed and sunk on the high seas. The sea is more than 3000 m deep at this point.
See also
literature
- Technical data according to: J. Apalkow: Корабли ВМФ СССР. Многоцелевые ПЛ и ПЛ спецназначания. (For example: Ships of the naval war fleet of the USSR. Multipurpose submarines and special submarines. ) Saint Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-8172-0069-4 (Russian).
Web links
- Shoaib Ahmed: Watch. Video of the explosions, fire on submarine INS Sindhurakshak. CNN-IBN, August 14, 2013, accessed August 15, 2013 (English, video of the explosions).
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Sindhurakshak on Deepstorm.ru (Russian) sighted on August 14, 2013
- ↑ a b Neha Thirani Bagri: "18 Indian Navy Men Feared Dead After Submarine Explosion" NYT, August 15, 2013, viewed August 15, 2013
- ^ Indian Express, August 15, 2013
- ^ The Economic Times, May 27, 2013
- ↑ a b Navy to float global tender to salvage sunken submarine INS Sindhurakshak. September 10, 2013, accessed September 15, 2013 .
- ↑ Navy's probe into submarine INS Sindhurakshak tragedy nowhere near completion. timesofindia.com, September 19, 2013, accessed January 7, 2014 .
- ↑ 12th body recovered from Sindhurakshak. indianexpress.com, September 11, 2013, accessed September 15, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c Saurabh Gupta: Submarine Sindhurakshak to be Decommissioned, Navy Mulls New Role for it. ndtv.com, December 4, 2015, accessed October 27, 2016 .
- ^ Sandeep Unnithan: INS Sindhurakshak lifted from Mumbai harbor floor in massive salvage operation. In: India Today. June 5, 2014, accessed September 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Alexander Antipin: Sindhurakshak sank after ammunition detonated. rbth.com, May 6, 2015, accessed October 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Rashmi Rajput: Navy sinks 'graveyard' INS Sindhurakshak. indianexpress.com, September 5, 2017, accessed January 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Rahul Singh: Defunct submarine Sindhurakshak finally disposed of. www.hindustantimes.com, July 10, 2017, accessed January 31, 2019 .