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Diana was a steam paddle steamer built in 1823 as a merchant vessel that in 1824 the Bengal Government purchased. During the First Anglo-Burmese War she became the first steam-powered warship of the Honourable East India Company to see action. [1]
Kolkata: West Bengal: Logistics and administrative support NavDet Paradip: Paradip: Odisha: FOB to be set up [29] [15] NAE Bhubaneswar** Bhubaneswar: Naval Air Enclave at Bhubaneswar Airport [30] Andaman & Nicobar Command [b] INS Kardip: Kamorta: Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Forward Operating Base INS Jarawa: Port Blair: Logistics and ...
INS Kolkata; INS Deepak; INS Vikramaditya. INS Kolkata. INS Deepak. 8 – 9 January Arabian sea [348] [349] Eastern Naval Command, Western Naval Command, Andaman & Nicobar Command and Indian Coast Guard. Eastern Naval Command Operational Readiness Exercise (Encore) January – 7 February Indian Ocean Region [350] Western Naval Command
The Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is a integrated tri-services command of the Indian Armed Forces, based at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India. [1] It was created in 2001 to safeguard India's strategic interests in Southeast Asia and the Strait of Malacca by increasing rapid deployment of military ...
INS Andamans is a Nicobar-class troopship.These large multi-role troop ships were converted from merchant ships which were originally ordered by the Ministry of Shipping for service with the Shipping Corporation of India that were later acquired by the Indian Navy for troop transport duties.
Its major work in the past involved repairing ships for the Kolkata Port Trust and fabricating vessels for the Tourism department and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In early 2012 it had orders for 15 auxiliary and service ships worth 250 crores from Indian Navy and were planned be serviced by 2018.
A ship was sent to Little Andaman but it returned without any success other than to report a piece of clothing, possibly a sailors cap, on the beach. [3] A few days later, the Kwang Tung, the station ship of Port Blair, was sent. It carried the British Officer in Charge of the Andamanese, Mr. Homfray, along with some local people to show the ...
The naval base in the port city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) began with a small HMI Naval Office under a naval control of the shipping officer, in the then Marine House.The port of Calcutta was strategic important during World War II so the Allied naval presence in India increased to safeguard and strengthen its maritime assets in East India and augment the logistic support capability to Allied ...