INS Vindhyagiri (F42)
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| Nilgiri- class | |
| Overview | |
| Type | frigate |
| Shipyard | |
| Order | 5th July 1976 |
| Keel laying | 5th November 1976 |
| Launch | November 12, 1977 |
| Commissioning | July 8, 1981 |
| Decommissioning | June 10, 2012 |
| Whereabouts | is to be sunk as a target ship |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
Standard: 2,682 ts |
| length |
113.4 meters |
| width |
13.1 meters |
| Draft |
4.3 meters |
| crew |
267 including 17 officers |
| drive |
2 water tube steam boilers with 38 atmospheric steam pressure |
| speed |
27 knots |
| Armament |
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| helicopter |
1 Westland Sea King Mk.42A or HAL Chetak |
The INS Vindhyagiri (F42) was a Nilgiri class - frigate of the Indian Navy . The Vindhyagiri was commissioned on July 8, 1981 and sank on January 31, 2011, a year before the planned decommissioning.
As the first ship of the Leander class , the INS Vindhyagiri was equipped with a diesel burner instead of the usual heavy oil burner. There was no need to preheat the fuel and it was assumed that there would be fewer furnace problems and explosions.
The sinking
On January 30, 2011 the Vindhyagiri was rammed by the German cargo ship MS Nordlake of the shipping company Klaus E. Oldendorff , which sailed under the Cypriot flag, on its return to the port of Mumbai amidships at the level of the engine room and boiler room. The Vindhyagiri was the fifth ship in a convoy to enter the port. The INS Godavari (F20) ran off the Vindhyagiri and asked the Nordlake leaving port to pass her on port side. However, the convoy had agreed with the Nordlake to pass on the starboard side. The Nordlake changed course by more than 60 degrees in order to allow the INS Godavari the port passage, and then had to avoid the cargo ship Sea Eagle entering the port . Thanks to a quick consultation with the Sea Eagle , the Nordlake was able to just avoid a collision and passed the Sea Eagle at a distance of only 20 m on the starboard side. The Vindhyagiri , running just behind and parallel to the Sea Eagle , which, traveling in a convoy and proceeding from the agreed starboard passage, tried to accelerate, but was no longer able to avoid the Nordlake . During the collision, fuel lines burst, causing a fire that could only be brought under control after more than 15 hours. At the time of the collision, the Indian frigate was having a family day. However, the crew and their relatives were saved in time. Due to the damage caused by the ramming and the fire as well as the use of large amounts of extinguishing water and various water ingresses, the ship had become so unstable that it sank to the bottom at its berth at a depth of seven meters the next day. The wreck, still sticking out of the water, blocked access to parts of Mumbai's naval arsenal for months. The ICGS Vivek , a ship belonging to the Indian Coast Guard, had sunk a year earlier after it was rammed by a freighter in the port of Mumbai.
On June 21, 2011, the Vindhyagiri was lifted and a large part of the ammunition stored on board was recovered. Due to the planned decommissioning for 2012 and the severe damage, the repair of the ship was rejected. Since one of the 12 ammunition chambers could not be evacuated due to the risk of explosion, after a year and a half in the shipyard on May 8, 2012, disposal of the ship by sinking as a target ship on the high seas was approved. As a result, the Vindhyagiri was decommissioned on June 10, 2012.
Web links
- Hamburg freighter sinks Indian frigate. ndr.de, February 2, 2011, archived from the original on August 16, 2012 ; Retrieved February 3, 2011 .
- Indian Naval Ships-Frigates-Giri Class. Indian Navy, archived from the original on March 7, 2012 ; accessed on January 26, 2016 (English). (With coat of arms of INS Vindhyagiri)
Remarks
- ↑ a b Vice Admiral Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani (Retd.), Transition to Eminence The Indian Navy 1976-1990 , Chapter 9, The Leander Frigate Project , 2004.
- ↑ a b c d e Damaged warship INS Vindhyagiri decommissioned. In: The Indian Express . June 12, 2012, accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c INS Vindhyagiri, stuck with ammunition, to be destroyed; court informed of accord. In: The Hindu . May 9, 2012, accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Article Hamburg freighter sinks Indian frigate on Spiegel Online from February 2, 2011
- ^ Presley Thomas: Merchant ship changed route too late. (No longer available online.) In: The Hindustan Times . February 3, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 10, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Deeptiman Tiwary: Naval ship responsible for Vindhyagiri collision. In: Mumbai Mirror . February 5, 2011, accessed September 10, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Kavitha Iyer: INS Vindhyagiri rises from sea. In: The Indian Express . June 22, 2011, accessed September 10, 2012 .
