{"id":89397,"date":"2020-01-13T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12921"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:01:14","slug":"two-coast-guard-ships-commissioned-at-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-coast-guard-ships-commissioned-at-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Coast Guard ships commissioned at Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,two Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGS) namely Annie Besant and Amrit Kaur were commissioned by Defence Secretary.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About ICGS Annie Besant:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ICGS Annie Besant was named in honour of Annie Besant, philanthropist, theosophist, prolific author and supporter of the Indian freedom struggle.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The ship will be based at Chennai under the operational and administrative control of the Commander, Coast Guard Region (East).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About ICGS Amrit Kaur:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ICGS Amrit Kaur derives the name from Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who belonged to the ruling family of Kapurthala, Punjab.&nbsp;<\/li><li>She took an active part in the \u2018Salt Satyagraha\u2019 and \u2018Quit India Movement\u2019 and served Independent India as its first Health Minister.<\/li><li>The ship will be based at Haldia under the operational and administrative control of the Commander, Coast Guard Region (North East).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of the ships:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The ships are 48.9 metres long and 7.5 metres wide with a displacement of 308 tonnes.The ships are capable of achieving a maximum speed of 34 knots.<\/li><li>They are fitted with state-of-the-art technology, navigation and communication equipment, sensors and machinery.<\/li><li>They are also capable of undertaking multifaceted tasks such as surveillance, interdiction, search and rescue and medical evacuation.<\/li><li>They are also equipped with Bofors 40\/60 guns and 12.7 mm SRCGs (Stabilised Remote Controlled Gun) for enhancing the fighting efficiency of the ship.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,two Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGS) namely Annie Besant and Amrit Kaur were commissioned by Defence Secretary. Facts: About ICGS Annie Besant: ICGS Annie Besant was named in honour of Annie Besant, philanthropist, theosophist, prolific author and supporter of the Indian freedom struggle.&nbsp; The ship will be based at Chennai under the operational and administrative&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/two-coast-guard-ships-commissioned-at-kolkata\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Coast Guard ships commissioned at Kolkata<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6842,6843],"class_list":["post-89397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-icgs-amrit-kaur","tag-icgs-annie-besant","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700781645,"cached_date":1704847182},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89397","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=89397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}