INS Vagli

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History
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NameINS Vagli
Launched19 April 1973
Commissioned10 August 1974
Decommissioned9 December 2010
General characteristics
Class & type Vela-class submarine
Displacement
  • 1,952 t (1,921 long tons) surfaced
  • 2,475 t (2,436 long tons) submerged
Length91.3 m (299 ft 6 in)
Beam7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draught6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Speed
  • 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced
  • 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) submerged
Range
  • 20,000 mi (32,000 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced
  • 380 mi (610 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) submerged
Test depth250 m (820 ft)
Complement75 (incl 8 officers)
Armament
  • 10 x 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes with 22 SET-65E/SAET-60 torpedoes
  • 44 mines in lieu of torpedoes

INS Vagli (S42) was a Vela-class diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy, commissioned in 1974. [1] Along with her sister ship Vela, she spent almost 10 years undergoing a protracted refit by Hindustan Shipyard. [2] After 36 years of active service, INS Vagli was decommissioned on 9 December 2010. [3] [4] [5]

Submarine museum proposal

It has been proposed to convert INS Vagli into a Submarine museum on the likes of her sister ship INS Kursura . The ship was brought to the Chennai Harbour on 25th March 2013 and later moved to Mammalapuram on April 6. and was handed over to the state for conversion into a Maritime Heritage Museum based near Mamallapuram. [6] [7] However, following various contractural setbacks, the process did not come to fruitation and the submarine was towed to a vacant berth at the chennai port in June 2014. The ship is still maintained by dock officials, though it's condition countinues to deteriorate . [8] [9] [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Submarines of Indian Navy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
  2. ↑ Unnithan, Sandeep (17 November 2008). "Navy's sub induction plan suffers blow". India Today.
  3. ↑ Pandit, Rajat (9 December 2010). "Navy retires INS Vagli, India down to 14 subs". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 28 August 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Indian Navy's Foxtrot submarines to retire soon". brahmand.com. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Images: The Last Post for a 36-yr-old warhorse". Rediff. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "INS Vagli towed back to Chennai port". The Hindu. 28 April 2014. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Shivakumar, C. (26 March 2013). "Vagli dives into history, to resurrect as Museum". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Desk, India TV News; News, India TV (27 January 2014). "1 worker dies, 2 injured during maintenance work on INS Vagli". India TV News. Retrieved 10 September 2025.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ↑ Nair, Sthanu R. (19 February 2020). "Turning ships into museums". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "What happened to TN's maritime heritage museum plan". The Times of India. 7 September 2016. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
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