Authorities Welcome INS Sunayna at Kochi Port of SNC
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An
offshore patrol vessel of the Indian Navy, INS Sunayna, has successfully
completed its anti-piracy deployment in the Gulf of Aden and returned to its
base port at Kochi on May 21, 2020. It functions under the jurisdictions of the
Southern Naval Command.
The ship sustained the last 80 days of
the mission-based deployment without entering any port. It was fuelled and
resupplied by tankers of the Indian Navy and USN.
However, the INS Sunayna was received by
senior officers of the SNC, who welcomed the crew back home and congratulated
them on sustained deployment at the sea port on Friday. Entire navigations
showed the proficiency and morale of the crew. INS Sunayna is the second
Saryu-class patrol vessel of the Indian Navy, designed and constructed
indigenously by the Goa Shipyard Limited.
This crew has been designed to undertake
fleet support operations, coastal and offshore patrolling, ocean surveillance
and monitoring of sea lines of communications and offshore assets and escort
duties.
In June 2018, the INS Sunayna was
deployed as part of Operation Nistar, a HADR mission to evacuate Indian
nationals from cyclone-hit Socotra Island. Since then its performance was
gradually monitored by the authorities concerned.
