P. S. Mahindroo
Rear Admiral Pritam Singh 'Peter' Mahindroo, PVSM (1917-1999) was a Flag Officer in the Indian Navy. He was the first Sikh Admiral in the Indian Navy. He was the commissioning Commanding Officer of the Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier . He later served as the Chief of Materiel and as the Director General Naval Dockyard Expansion Scheme before retiring in 1972. Naval career Mahindroo was in the seventh batch of Indian cadet-entry officers to join the Indian Mercantile Marine Training Ship Dufferin, in 1933. After graduating from the ''Dufferin'' in December 1935, he joined the mercantile marine. World War II In September 1939, with the outbreak of the World War II, he joined the Royal Indian Naval Reserve (RINR) as an acting Sub-lieutenant. He was initially denied entry since he refused to cut his hair, but later was accepted as the first turbaned officer in the navy. He first served on the Cornwallis-class sloop ''HMIS Pansy''. After about two years on the sloop, he ...
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Rear Admiral (India)
Rear admiral is a Two-star rank, two-star flag officer rank in the Indian Navy. It is the third-highest active rank in the Indian Navy. Rear admiral ranks above the one-star rank of Commodore (India), commodore and below the three-star rank of Vice Admiral (India), vice admiral. The equivalent rank in the Indian Army is Major General (India), major general and in the Indian Air Force is Air Vice Marshal (India), air vice marshal. History Admiral (India), Admiral Ram Dass Katari was the first Indian to be promoted to the rank of Rear admiral. In 1954, while serving as the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Deputy Commander-in-Chief, in the absence of Rear Admiral Mark Pizey, he officiated as the Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Commander-in-Chief in the rank of rear admiral. On 12 March 1956, Katari was promoted to the acting rank of Rear Admiral. On 2 October 1956, he was confirmed as a substantive rear admiral and became the first Indian officer to be appointed the Flag ...
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