{"id":110959,"date":"2021-06-07T18:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=110959"},"modified":"2021-06-07T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:40:55","slug":"hydrographic-survey-ship-ins-sandhayak-decommissioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hydrographic-survey-ship-ins-sandhayak-decommissioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrographic survey ship &#8220;INS Sandhayak&#8221; decommissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian Navy\u2019s oldest hydrographic survey ship INS Sandhayak was decommissioned at Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam after serving the nation for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: Hydrography <\/strong>is the science that measures and describes the physical features of the navigable portion of the Earth&#8217;s surface and adjoining coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About INS Sandhayak<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also :<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ussr-era-ins-rajput-decommissioned\/\">&#8211;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">USSR-era &#8220;INS Rajput&#8221; decommissioned<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>INS Sandhayak <\/strong>was the lead ship of the Sandhayak class of survey ships.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ship operated<\/strong> as a hydrographic survey ship in the Indian Navy, under the Eastern Naval Command.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>The ship conducted shallow coastal and deep-sea hydrographic surveys. The ship also collected oceanographic and geophysical data.\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to conducting surveys, it also assisted as military transport and casualty-carrying vessels in times of war and natural disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The ship was conceptualised <\/strong>by the then Chief Hydrographer to the Government of India, Rear Adm FL Fraser.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ship was developed <\/strong>by Garden Reach Ship Builders Limited(GRSE), Kolkata.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ship was then<\/strong> commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1981.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operations: <\/strong>The ship has been an active participant in many significant operations such as\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operation Pawan<\/strong> (assisting the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka in 1987) and<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operation Rainbow<\/strong> (rendering humanitarian assistance in Sri Lanka post Tsunami of 2004).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ship also participated <\/strong>in the maiden joint INDO-US HADR (humanitarian assistance and disaster relief) exercise <strong>&#8216;Tiger-Triumph&#8217;<\/strong> in 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/hydrographic-survey-ship-ins-sandhayak-decommissioned\/article34729011.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"j0RqkngKCs\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ins-viraat\/\">&#8220;INS Viraat&#8221; &#8211; SC ordered a status quo on dismantling<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;INS Viraat&#8221; &#8211; SC ordered a status quo on dismantling&#8221; &#8212; Free UPSC IAS Preparation For Aspirants\" src=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ins-viraat\/embed\/#?secret=pyqLlfmNr3#?secret=j0RqkngKCs\" data-secret=\"j0RqkngKCs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Navy\u2019s oldest hydrographic survey ship INS Sandhayak was decommissioned at Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam after serving the nation for 40 years. Note: Hydrography is the science that measures and describes the physical features of the navigable portion of the Earth&#8217;s surface and adjoining coastal areas. About INS Sandhayak: Read Also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hydrographic-survey-ship-ins-sandhayak-decommissioned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hydrographic survey ship &#8220;INS Sandhayak&#8221; decommissioned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[1434],"class_list":["post-110959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773352,"cached_date":1702733426},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}