Built as a three-masted steel hulled sail-training vessel by the Goa Shipyard Limited Vasco Da-Gama, India for the Indian Navy.
She was designed by the renowned British ship designer Colin Mudie on the lines of the former sail-training vessel LORD NELSON.
20 June 1995 keel laid down
01 December 1995 launched under the name INS TARANGINI, named after the Hindi word ‘Tarang’ meaning waves.
Displacement 513 ton, gross tonnage 360 ton, dim. 54 x 8.53 x 4.5m. (draught).
Powered by 2 Kirioskar Cummins diesels engines 320hp each.
Barque rigged, 20 sails of 965.4m²
Aluminum deckhouse, the interior and main decks are finished with high quality teakwood.
Crew 6 officers, 27 ratings and 30 cadets.
11 November 1997 commissioned at Marmagao Port Trust, Goa, by Vice Admiral Avnish Rai Tandon, Flag officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command.
INS TARANGINI is part of the First Training Squadron of the Indian Navy and based at Kochi (Cochin).
Though not exactly a medieval cannon firing Man-of-War, the ship was built to serve as a platform for training young naval cadets in the basic of seamanship and navigation before graduate on to modern warships.
She was the 31st purpose built sail-trainer in the world, and the third indigenously built ship to be commissioned in India’s 50th year of independence.
She is equipped with two motorboats and radars mounted on board are the only peep of modern technology.
At the time of her construction only 27 navies in the world operated sail training ship.
Ace sailing champ Commander Homi J Motivala commands her.
0n 23 January 2003 she sailed from her homeport Kochi, and after a three-day storm off Djibouti and via the Suez Canal and stormy weather off Sicily she headed to New York via the Canary Islands and Bermuda.
From New York she headed north via the east coast of North America to the St Lawrence Seaway to Hamilton on Lake Ontario, where she had a brief stay for essential maintain work.
Then she took part in four races on the Great Lakes where she gained 2 Firsts and 2 Thirds to be the “Overall Champion” as well as being awarded the A.S.T.A. Trophy for International Friendship.
Then she proceeded again down the east coast, and making calls at several ports before she passed the Panama Canal and headed for the Galapagos Islands.
Then she sailed to the French Polynesia islands a distance of 3.015 miles under sail alone for 83% of the time and made the passage in 22 days 22 hours.
After a visit in Fiji she headed for Cairns in Australia for another maintenance stop. From there she headed home via Darwin, Jakarta and Singapore to a tremendous welcome.
During this voyage she covered 35.454 miles, she visited 18 countries and 37 ports, and crewmembers from 17 countries were carried.
http://www.equasis.org gives for 2005: IMO no 1005253 and that she is withdrawn from her classification society due to overdue survey in December 2003.
Source: mostly copied from : Watercraft Philately Vol 48 pag 13. Log Book Vol 34 page 69. Some web-sites.