1 October 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships, Yacht of the Month
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passing Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA © Cruadin/cc-by-2.5
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.
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1 March 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: General, Tall ships, Yacht of the Month
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in Kochi © Indian Navy
INS
Sudarshini is a
sail training ship built by
Goa Shipyard for the
Indian Navy. The ship is a
sister ship of
INS Tarangini which was commissioned in 1997. “Sudarshini” means “beautiful lady
Sundari” after the younger half-sister of
Buddha. The ship was designed by
Colin Mudie, a
naval architect and
yacht designer from the United Kingdom. Her homeport ist
Kochi.
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