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Naval operations during Liberation of Goa.
https://x.com/Kunal_Biswas707/status/18 ... 6LgFQ&s=19
Please post as images.
Thanks. Ramana
https://x.com/Kunal_Biswas707/status/18 ... 6LgFQ&s=19
Please post as images.
Thanks. Ramana
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A few Images taken from the X thread of Kunal Biswas mentioned above
(please excuse large images. Original images were even bigger)
1) The combatants
2) NRP Afonso de Albuquerque
3) NRP Antares
4) INS Delhi
5) INS Mysore
6) INS Beas
7) INS Kaveri
8 ) No prizes for guessing this girl
INS Vikrant
9) NRP Afonso de Albuquerque - after she was hit and ran aground
10) NRP Vega - Strafed by the IAF & abandoned by the Portuguese. Renamed and used as a target ship. NRP Sirius was scuttled by the Portuguese. NRP Antares survived the skirmish and reached Karachi port 530 miles away
11) The engagement
A few Images taken from the X thread of Kunal Biswas mentioned above
(please excuse large images. Original images were even bigger)
1) The combatants
2) NRP Afonso de Albuquerque
3) NRP Antares
4) INS Delhi
5) INS Mysore
6) INS Beas
7) INS Kaveri
8 ) No prizes for guessing this girl
INS Vikrant
9) NRP Afonso de Albuquerque - after she was hit and ran aground
10) NRP Vega - Strafed by the IAF & abandoned by the Portuguese. Renamed and used as a target ship. NRP Sirius was scuttled by the Portuguese. NRP Antares survived the skirmish and reached Karachi port 530 miles away
11) The engagement
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Navy Day Special | An Admiral of the Indian Navy
Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema PVSM, AVSM, NM was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jan 1977 on graduation from the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla. He is a Gunnery and Missile Warfare Specialist where he topped the course. He graduated from the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, with flying colors coming first in the overall order of merit and also winning the medal for the Best Dissertation. He is also an alumni of the College of Naval Warfare (CNW), Mumbai. He has the rare honour of Commanding five frontline war ships -- The missile boat INS Nishank, Mauritian Coast Guard OPV Vigilant, the missile corvette INS Khanjar, the stealth frigate INS Trishul and the Aircraft Carrier INS Viraat. He has also held the distinguished command of the Indian Naval Academy which imparts training to Officer Cadets.
Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema PVSM, AVSM, NM was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jan 1977 on graduation from the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla. He is a Gunnery and Missile Warfare Specialist where he topped the course. He graduated from the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, with flying colors coming first in the overall order of merit and also winning the medal for the Best Dissertation. He is also an alumni of the College of Naval Warfare (CNW), Mumbai. He has the rare honour of Commanding five frontline war ships -- The missile boat INS Nishank, Mauritian Coast Guard OPV Vigilant, the missile corvette INS Khanjar, the stealth frigate INS Trishul and the Aircraft Carrier INS Viraat. He has also held the distinguished command of the Indian Naval Academy which imparts training to Officer Cadets.
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https://x.com/thisdayin_IN/status/1942199191977218554 ---> Sixty Five years in service of the nation. The Indian Naval Air Squadron 300 (INSAS 300) - the famed White Tigers was commissioned by Lt Cdr BD Law, on 07 July 1960, at Royal Naval Air Station, Brawdy, in UK.
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Reposting from Geopolitics thread - Indian Naval History
World Order Influx: Lessons From History by Sanjeev Sanyal
In this insightful speech, renowned economist and historian Sanjeev Sanyal pointed to the events of 1025, when Chola king Rajendra Chola launched a naval expedition against the Srivijaya Empire in Southeast Asia. The Srivijayas had taken control of both the Malacca and Sunda straits and had increased tariffs on passing ships, affecting Chola trade. Sanjeev Sanyal mentioned, “When these temples were destroyed, the financial base of our maritime power was destroyed.” Towards the end of his discourse, Sanyal elaborated that the historical link between financial and military strength remains relevant. “Our ancestors knew that to protect economic power, you sometimes have to be willing to back it with hard power,” he said. He also explained the shifts in world power since World War II, the rise and fall of global superpowers, and the implications for India's role on the world stage.
World Order Influx: Lessons From History by Sanjeev Sanyal
In this insightful speech, renowned economist and historian Sanjeev Sanyal pointed to the events of 1025, when Chola king Rajendra Chola launched a naval expedition against the Srivijaya Empire in Southeast Asia. The Srivijayas had taken control of both the Malacca and Sunda straits and had increased tariffs on passing ships, affecting Chola trade. Sanjeev Sanyal mentioned, “When these temples were destroyed, the financial base of our maritime power was destroyed.” Towards the end of his discourse, Sanyal elaborated that the historical link between financial and military strength remains relevant. “Our ancestors knew that to protect economic power, you sometimes have to be willing to back it with hard power,” he said. He also explained the shifts in world power since World War II, the rise and fall of global superpowers, and the implications for India's role on the world stage.
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Cross posting from Know Your India thread.
India's Stitched Ship: Built Without Nails. Sails Across Oceans
Economist Sanjeev Sanyal leads ground-breaking reconstruction of 5th century Indian stitched ship INSV Kaundinya, revealing India's forgotten maritime dominance. Based on Ajanta cave paintings and ancient texts, this authentic vessel demonstrates sophisticated shipbuilding techniques that enabled Indian Ocean trade networks spanning till Rome. The project preserves vanishing traditional craftsmanship while showcasing India's advanced maritime heritage predating European naval technology.
About the Speakers:
Sanjeev Sanyal is a leading Indian economist, historian, and member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. A Rhodes Scholar and former Global Strategist at Deutsche Bank, he now shapes India’s economic policy and global financial engagement. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. He is an accomplished writer of many critically acclaimed books.
Vishnu Som is Group Executive Editor at NDTV and anchor of the flagship show Left, Right and Centre. An award-winning television journalist with nearly three decades of experience, he has reported from major conflict zones. Vishnu has interviewed world leaders from Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe to Bill Gates and John Kerry, anchored global sessions at the World Economic Forum, and produced over 50 acclaimed documentaries.
Topics Covered:
00:00 Introduction - India's Peninsular Identity Crisis and Maritime Heritage Gap
01:24 INSV Kaundinya Project - From Vision to Construction
08:55 Sanjeev Sanyal’s Vision of Ancient Shipbuilding Renaissance
10:38 Kaundinya's Epic Love Story - First Indian Mariner
13:15 Design of the Stitched Ships of Ancient India
19:24 Sailing Challenges - Square Sails, Steering Oars, and Ancient Navigation
22:23 Indian Ocean Trade Dominance - Merchant Guilds and Naval Power
24:20 Support and Backing for the Stitched Ship Project
27:01 Harappan Anchor - Stone Technology Spanning Millennia
India's Stitched Ship: Built Without Nails. Sails Across Oceans
Economist Sanjeev Sanyal leads ground-breaking reconstruction of 5th century Indian stitched ship INSV Kaundinya, revealing India's forgotten maritime dominance. Based on Ajanta cave paintings and ancient texts, this authentic vessel demonstrates sophisticated shipbuilding techniques that enabled Indian Ocean trade networks spanning till Rome. The project preserves vanishing traditional craftsmanship while showcasing India's advanced maritime heritage predating European naval technology.
About the Speakers:
Sanjeev Sanyal is a leading Indian economist, historian, and member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. A Rhodes Scholar and former Global Strategist at Deutsche Bank, he now shapes India’s economic policy and global financial engagement. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. He is an accomplished writer of many critically acclaimed books.
Vishnu Som is Group Executive Editor at NDTV and anchor of the flagship show Left, Right and Centre. An award-winning television journalist with nearly three decades of experience, he has reported from major conflict zones. Vishnu has interviewed world leaders from Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe to Bill Gates and John Kerry, anchored global sessions at the World Economic Forum, and produced over 50 acclaimed documentaries.
Topics Covered:
00:00 Introduction - India's Peninsular Identity Crisis and Maritime Heritage Gap
01:24 INSV Kaundinya Project - From Vision to Construction
08:55 Sanjeev Sanyal’s Vision of Ancient Shipbuilding Renaissance
10:38 Kaundinya's Epic Love Story - First Indian Mariner
13:15 Design of the Stitched Ships of Ancient India
19:24 Sailing Challenges - Square Sails, Steering Oars, and Ancient Navigation
22:23 Indian Ocean Trade Dominance - Merchant Guilds and Naval Power
24:20 Support and Backing for the Stitched Ship Project
27:01 Harappan Anchor - Stone Technology Spanning Millennia
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Twitter threads on late Vice Admiral Manohar Prahlad Awati (retd).
https://x.com/MeluhaMaritime/status/1964681953028026398 ---> Today is the 98th birth anniversary of an iconic personality of the @spokespersonnavy, Vice Admiral MP Awati, PVSM, VrC.
https://x.com/srikantkesnur/status/1303005527803269120 ---> Thread on MP Awati. Today, 07 Sep, is birth anniversary of late Vice Admiral MP Awati, one of India's great maritime icons. Evening today @MHSofIndia had a splendid commemorative event in tribute. Sir Robin Knox Johnston in conversation with @johnsonindia described Awati as fascinating...
https://x.com/MeluhaMaritime/status/1964681953028026398 ---> Today is the 98th birth anniversary of an iconic personality of the @spokespersonnavy, Vice Admiral MP Awati, PVSM, VrC.
https://x.com/srikantkesnur/status/1303005527803269120 ---> Thread on MP Awati. Today, 07 Sep, is birth anniversary of late Vice Admiral MP Awati, one of India's great maritime icons. Evening today @MHSofIndia had a splendid commemorative event in tribute. Sir Robin Knox Johnston in conversation with @johnsonindia described Awati as fascinating...
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https://x.com/abhilashtomy/status/1964531573534970266 ---> Today is the birthday of one of the finest Admiral the Navy has seen. Plan a real whammy, he would say, not garden stuff.
And he always planned a real whammy. When Marshal Josip Broz Tito visited India, the Admiral, then a young officer, was appointed his aide-de-camp, touring the length and breadth of the country in a train. In return for the pleasure of his company, Josip Broz Tito gifted him an autographed Rolex, which he wore and promptly lost a few decades later. He was mistaken for Indian royalty when he rode a white horse through the streets of Basra one early morning, was reprimanded by Admiral Dawson for shifting his flag to a sailboat and rebuked by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for riding to work in Delhi on horseback in full uniform. Yet it was the same Mrs. Gandhi who, years later, summoned him when a clerical error denied him the office of Chief of Naval Staff. She offered him any post he wished. He asked only for a cup of tea, mildly annoyed at being summoned for something so trivial.
Instead of a Governor’s post, he edited Cine Blitz, modelled for Digjam — much to his wife’s despair — and became a director in Tolani Shipping. He wandered into forests to count tigers, politely declined the job of Conservator of the Serengeti Game Reserve, and chastised serving admirals with a wit that cut sharper than any sword: “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.”
He told me that his ancestors had served the kings of Rajasthan, that there was a Kaiser-e-Hind in his family, and that his father, an ICS officer, had been the Mayor of Mumbai. He carried on those traditions in 1971 when he was called upon to operate within enemy waters. Dodging mines and submarines, he captured three ships and possibly sank a submarine after pressing home an attack with great vigour. Yet when the government granted him land for his Vir Chakra after the ’71 war, he turned away from Pune, unimpressed with a plot near a film star’s mansion, choosing an unglamorous corner of Vinchurni where he built a grand library, carving out a tiny home for himself in its spare space, because a man of imagination needs space to think, not a palace to dust.
He loved cars. Once, on a drive to Goa, he staged a mutiny, seized the wheel, and matched the car’s speed to his age, roaring at every reckless driver with that immortal line: “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.” Even illness could not rob him of wit. Once I found him in the hospital chatting to a doctor who asked him which year he was born. "1921", he answered. The young man replied: “Sir, do you know Bhagat Singh?” The Admiral laughed — and in that laugh was the weight of a century… and perhaps the faint hint that he might be plotting to take over the hospital trolley next.
His greatest legacy was perhaps not in the battlefield, but in the field of adventure. Denied the chance to see action in the Second World War, he found solace in a book he bought at Charing Cross: Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World. That simple act lit a spark. He then set out to plan a real whammy, not garden stuff. Sixty years later, that spark became the flame for not one but five circumnavigations. This, I believe, was his true achievement — not in what he claimed for himself, but in what he awakened in others. His was the voice that whispered to me to bash on regardless in the coldest and windiest storm.
Happy birthday, Admiral!
And he always planned a real whammy. When Marshal Josip Broz Tito visited India, the Admiral, then a young officer, was appointed his aide-de-camp, touring the length and breadth of the country in a train. In return for the pleasure of his company, Josip Broz Tito gifted him an autographed Rolex, which he wore and promptly lost a few decades later. He was mistaken for Indian royalty when he rode a white horse through the streets of Basra one early morning, was reprimanded by Admiral Dawson for shifting his flag to a sailboat and rebuked by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for riding to work in Delhi on horseback in full uniform. Yet it was the same Mrs. Gandhi who, years later, summoned him when a clerical error denied him the office of Chief of Naval Staff. She offered him any post he wished. He asked only for a cup of tea, mildly annoyed at being summoned for something so trivial.
Instead of a Governor’s post, he edited Cine Blitz, modelled for Digjam — much to his wife’s despair — and became a director in Tolani Shipping. He wandered into forests to count tigers, politely declined the job of Conservator of the Serengeti Game Reserve, and chastised serving admirals with a wit that cut sharper than any sword: “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.”
He told me that his ancestors had served the kings of Rajasthan, that there was a Kaiser-e-Hind in his family, and that his father, an ICS officer, had been the Mayor of Mumbai. He carried on those traditions in 1971 when he was called upon to operate within enemy waters. Dodging mines and submarines, he captured three ships and possibly sank a submarine after pressing home an attack with great vigour. Yet when the government granted him land for his Vir Chakra after the ’71 war, he turned away from Pune, unimpressed with a plot near a film star’s mansion, choosing an unglamorous corner of Vinchurni where he built a grand library, carving out a tiny home for himself in its spare space, because a man of imagination needs space to think, not a palace to dust.
He loved cars. Once, on a drive to Goa, he staged a mutiny, seized the wheel, and matched the car’s speed to his age, roaring at every reckless driver with that immortal line: “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.” Even illness could not rob him of wit. Once I found him in the hospital chatting to a doctor who asked him which year he was born. "1921", he answered. The young man replied: “Sir, do you know Bhagat Singh?” The Admiral laughed — and in that laugh was the weight of a century… and perhaps the faint hint that he might be plotting to take over the hospital trolley next.
His greatest legacy was perhaps not in the battlefield, but in the field of adventure. Denied the chance to see action in the Second World War, he found solace in a book he bought at Charing Cross: Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World. That simple act lit a spark. He then set out to plan a real whammy, not garden stuff. Sixty years later, that spark became the flame for not one but five circumnavigations. This, I believe, was his true achievement — not in what he claimed for himself, but in what he awakened in others. His was the voice that whispered to me to bash on regardless in the coldest and windiest storm.
Happy birthday, Admiral!