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UGRA CLASS
Vessel Type: Submarine tender. Names & Pennant Numbers with commission
dates: Displacement: 6750 tons
standard. Main Machinery: Four diesel electric generators with 8000 hp with two motors and two shafts. Maximum Speed: 17 knots. Maximum Range: 21,000 miles at 10 knots. Complement: 400. Weapons: Four 76mm guns with 80º elevation, 90 rounds a minute to 8n miles; 15 km. Radar: Air/Surface; Slim Net, E/F-band. Comments: The vessel was commissioned on 28 December 1968 by Captain M R Shuner at Odessa in the erstwhile USSR. Her major role as a submarine depot ship was to provide both operative and administrative support to the submarine squadron. She was decommissioned on 16 July 2006, by Vice Admiral Sureesh Mehta - the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command. The ship was instrumental in extending the sea legs of the Indian Navy, with her intrinsic heavy duty repair bays, torpedo workshops, medical facilities and huge accommodation space. This enabled long deployments of submarines away from base ports, both in the Arabian sea and the Bay of Bengal. The vessel had a provision for a single helicopter. It could accommodate 750 sailors and had two cranes, one of 60 tons and one of 10 tons. |
