INS Tarangini (A75)

INS Tarangini (A75) en-route to Sri Lanka
History
India
Name	INS Tarangini
Namesake	"Waves"
Ordered	1
Builder	Goa Shipyard
Laid down	20 June 1995
Launched	1 December 1995
Commissioned	11 November 1997
In service	1
Identification	IMO number: 1005253 MMSI number: 419100094 Callsign: VVXV Pennant number: A75[1]
Status	Active
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General characteristics
Class and type	Three masted barque
Displacement	513 tons
Length	54 m (177 ft)
Beam	8.53 m (28.0 ft)
Height	34.5 m (113 ft) (mainmast above waterline)
Draught	4.5 m (15 ft)
Installed power	320 hp (240 kW) per engine
Propulsion	2 Kirloskar Cummins diesels
Sail plan	Barque rig (1035m² sail area)
Complement	61[2]

INS Tarangini is a three-masted barque, commissioned in 1997 as a sail training ship for the Indian Navy. She is square rigged on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen mast. She was constructed in Goa to a design by the British naval architect Colin Mudie, and launched on 1 December 1995. In 2003–04, she became the first Indian naval ship to circumnavigate the globe.

Apart from races, the ship sails extensively across the Indian Ocean region for the purpose of providing sail training experience to the officer cadets of the Indian Navy. The Indian Navy believes that training on board these ships is the best method of instilling among the trainees the "indefinable 'sea-sense' and respect for elements of nature, which are inseparable from safe and successful seafaring". The Navy believes that sail training also serves to impart the values of courage, camaraderie, endurance and esprit-de-corps among budding naval officers.^[3]