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Navy vessel sinks off Visakhapatnam coast

1 dead, 4 missing as torpedo recovery vessel sinks off Visakhapatnam

A file photo of an Indian Navy submarine that had sunk. Former navy chief D.K. Joshi had quit following a series of accidents. Photo: AFP/Ministry of DefencePremium
A file photo of an Indian Navy submarine that had sunk. Former navy chief D.K. Joshi had quit following a series of accidents. Photo: AFP/Ministry of Defence

Visakhapatnam /New Delhi: A torpedo recovery vessel (TRV) of the Indian Navy on Thursday sunk off the Visakhapatnam coast during a naval exercise killing one sailor while four others went missing.

Twenty-three people have been rescued and a search and rescue operation was launched for the missing. At the time of the incident, which occurred at 8pm, there were 28 personnel on board.

“The vessel was on a routine mission to recover torpedoes fired by fleet ships during a routine exercise, when it experienced flooding in one of its compartments," the navy said. “One sailor has lost his life during the rescue operation and four personnel are reported missing. Twenty-three personnel have been rescued safely by the search and rescue (SAR) ships dispatched to the area," navy said in a statement issued in Delhi. Navy officials said the flooding happened when the vessel was on its way back after collecting the “dummy" torpedo that was used in the exercise.

“The incident happened within 10-15 km off Vizag post," a navy spokesperson said in Visakhapatnam. The boat sunk because of “some flooding", he said.

The torpedo recovery vessel is an auxiliary vessel which is used to recover practice torpedoes fired by fleet ships and submarines. The ship, which is 23 metres long and 6.5 metres at the beam, was built by Goa Shipyard in 1983 and has served the Indian Navy for the last 31 years. The accident is one of the many that the navy has witnessed over the last year.

Navy chief admiral R.K. Dhowan took over as the chief of the naval staff on 17 April this year, after his predecessor D.K. Joshi quit following a series of accidents.

Admiral Joshi’s resignation came immediately after a fire on the INS Sindhuratna, which left two sailors dead. On October 31, INS Kora suffered minor damage after it was scraped by a merchant vessel near Visakhapatnam.

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Published: 06 Nov 2014, 11:47 PM IST
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