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Naval ship decommissioned
By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI,
APRIL 4.
INS Makar was decommissioned at a solemn ceremony at the Chennai port today.
The ship's flag was lowered at sunset as the buglers sounded the last post marking the end of its 21-year service to the country. Commodore A.T. Lucose, Commanding Officer of INS Venduruthy, a Naval training establishment at Kochi was the Chief Guest.
The 37.5 metre long vessel was commissioned into Naval service on January 31, 1984. Initially inducted as a minor survey vessel, it did numerous surveys for the Navy and the Hydrographic Department of India till 1993. Following the Navy's decision to increase its presence in the Palk Bay in the wake of LTTE insurgency off the Tamil Nadu coast, the role of INS Makar was changed from surveying to local defence and its base port from that of Kochi to Chennai. Under the changed role, the ship was deployed for the first time in the Palk Bay on January 2, 1994 and thereafter it was involved in innumerable exercises and operations.
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