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`Ship-on-campus' laboratory launched in Madurai institute

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To be used for imparting pre-sea training to students

COMMISSIONED: Ajoy Chatterjee, Chief Surveyor-cum-Additional Director General (Technical), Directorate General of Shipping, Mumbai, fifth from left, launching the training ship on Monday. — Photo: S. James

MADURAI: A `ship-on-campus' laboratory and workshop was launched at the R.L. Institute of Nautical Sciences here on Monday.

`Meenakshi,' a life-size training ship, was launched for imparting pre-sea training to students of marine engineering on operational and maintenance aspects. With a dimension of 81 metres in length, it is a replica of a cargo vessel with three decks.

The training ship Meenakshi, which is constructed at a cost of Rs. 5 crore in a time of 30 months, is equipped with 4,000 horse power Deutz engine and two Cummins generators, said R. Lakshmipathy, president of the institute.

With the presence of a training ship, cadets would get hands-on training for 1,152 hours during the course of six months, he explained.

S.C. Misra, a professor from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, was assigned by the Directorate General of Shipping to monitor, advise and certify the project.

The `Training Ship Meenakshi' was launched by Ajoy Chatterjee, Chief Surveyor-cum-Additional Director General (Technical), Directorate General of Shipping.

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