Navy's Hydrographic Survey Ship Sandhayak To Be Decommissioned On Friday

Apart from survey missions, the ship has been an active participant in many significant operations, the Navy said in a statement.

Indian Navy's hydrographic survey ship Sandhayak would be decommissioned on Friday after serving the nation for 40 years, an official statement said on Thursday. "The decommissioning ceremony of INS Sandhayak will be held at naval dockyard Visakhapatnam and will be a low-key event attended only by in-station officers and sailors with strict observance of COVID-19 protocols," the statement issued the Indian Navy said. The ship, during its commissioned service, undertook approximately 200 major hydrographic surveys and numerous minor surveys in both east and west coasts of the country, the Andaman seas as well as in the neighbouring countries, it said. Apart from survey missions, the ship has been an active participant in many significant operations such as Operation Pawan (assisting the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka in 1987) and Operation Rainbow (rendering humanitarian assistance post Tsunami of 2004), the statement said.