INS Makar commissioned into the Indian Navy

SIRSI(KARNATAKA): Flag Officer Commanding in Chief, Western Naval Command, Vice Admiral Shekar Sinha, today commissioned INS Makar into the Indian Navy at Karwar Kadamba Sea Bird Naval Base.

"The primary role of the ship is to undertake Hydrographic surveys required for production of nautical charts and publications aimed at improving navigational safety at sea. She is equipped with an array of modern surveying eqiupment and also undertake limited oceanographic surveys towards providing marine environmental data," a release said.

A Catamaran Hydrographic Survey Vessel, indigenously built by Alcock Ashdown Gujarat Limited, the ship is an acknowledgement of the Navy that indigenous warship building industry has come of age, the release said.

"INS Makar also marks a new chapter in the annals of hydrography in India," it said.