Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) is an

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owned ship building company located on the West Coast of India at

Vasco da Gama, Goa Vasco da Gama (), often shortened to Vasco, is a city in the state of Goa on the west coast of India. It is named after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. It is the headquarters of the Mormugão taluka (subdistrict). The city lies on the ...

. It was established in 1957, originally by the colonial government of the Portuguese in India as the "Estaleiros Navais de Goa", to build barges to be used in

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

's growing mining industry, which took off after the establishment of India's blockade of Goa in 1955. In the wake of Portugal's defeat and unconditional surrender to India following the

1961 Indian annexation of Goa The Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed ', the then Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, Daman and Diu, starting with the armed action carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in December 1961. In India ...

, it was requisitioned to manufacture warships for the

Indian Navy The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy. As a blue-water navy, it operates si ...

and the

Indian Coast Guard The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone. The Indian Coast Guard was formally es ...

. GSL is undergoing a modernisation of its yard to adapt to the latest technology in shipbuilding. To this purpose it is negotiating with well-known shipbuilders for an arrangement to collaborate. To date it has built 167 vessels, including barges, tugs, landing craft, offshore patrol vessels and other vessels for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard and for export to countries like Yemen. A new slipway has been commissioned to take up major repair jobs of ships in the dry dock area. A damage control simulator and two double boom level luffing cranes for heavy lifting have been constructed.

Military ships built

GSL has built the following ships for military use:

Landing craft Mark II

* ''L34'' – commissioned 28 January 1980 * ''L33'' – 1 December 1980 * ''L35'' – 11 December 1983 * ''L36'' – 18 July 1986 * ''L37'' – 18 October 1986 * ''L38'' – 10 December 1986 * ''L39'' – 25 March 1987

''Saryu'' class offshore patrol vessel

* INS ''Saryu'' (P54) * INS ''Sunayna'' (P58) * SLNS '' Sayurala'' (P623) *SLNS Sindurala (P624)

''Vikram'' class offshore patrol vessel

* CGS ''Varad'' (40) – 19 July 1990 * CGS ''

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'' (41) – 19 July 1990

''Samar'' class offshore patrol vessel

* CGS ''

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'' (42) – 14 February 1996 * CGS ''Sangram'' (43) – 29 March 1997 * CGS ''Sarang'' (44) – 21 June 1999 * CGS '' Sagar'' (45) – 3 November 2003

''Tarantul I'' class missile corvette

* INS ''Vinash'' (K47) – 20 November 1993 * INS ''Vidyut'' (K48) – 16 January 1995 * INS ''Prahar'' (K98) – 1 March 1997 Lost at sea on 22 April 2006 * INS ''Pralaya'' (K91) – Missile Corvette 18 December 2002

Extra fast patrol vessel

* CGS ''Sarojini Naidu'' (229) – 11 November 2002 * CGS ''Durgabai Deshmukh'' (230) – 29 April 2003 * CGS ''Kasturba Gandhi'' (231) – 28 October 2005 * CGS ''Aruna Asaf Ali'' (232) – 28 January 2006 * CGS ''Subhadra Kumari Chauhan'' (233) – 28 April 2006 In 1997, GSL built the three-masted

barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, b ...

INS ''Tarangini'' for use as a training ship for the Indian Navy.

Offshore Patrol Vessel

* – 10 November 2015

Future ships

GSL has been nominated to build the following class of ships for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard :

Future Indian minehunter class

GSL will jointly build twelve Mine Counter-Measure Vessels in collaboration with a ToT partner selected as per procedure.

Talwar class frigates

GSL will build two Talwar-class frigates in collaboration with Russia's United Ship Building.

Fast Patrol Boats For Indian Army

GSL has bagged an Order of Rs.65 Crore from Indian Army to build 12 fast patrol boats for the surveillance and patrolling at large water bodies. The First Vessel is expected to be delivered by July end of 2021.

Future Pollution Control vessels

GSL will Construct two Pollution Control Vessels for the

. These vessels will be independently designed, developed and built by GSL. Both vessels are scheduled for delivery by November 2024, and May 2025, respectively.

Other products

Tugboat A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line. These boats typically tug ships in circumstances where they cannot or should not move under their own power, su ...

Surface effect ship A Surface Effect Ship (SES) or Sidewall Hovercraft is a watercraft that has both an air cushion, like a hovercraft, and twin hulls, like a catamaran. When the air cushion is in use, a small portion of the twin hulls remains in the water. When the ...

s * Hovercraft * High-speed aluminium-hulled vessels *

Pollution control Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the ...

vessels * Advanced deep sea

commercial trawler A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets tha ...

s * Fish factory vessels, Catamarans * Ferry

References

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