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INSV Kaundinya, the Navy’s pioneering stitched sailing vas built utilizing accepted techniques, volition undertake her maiden overseas voyage to Oman starting December 29, officials said connected Tuesday.
The vas volition beryllium flagged disconnected from Porbandar successful Gujarat for Muscat, symbolically retracing the historical maritime routes that connected India with the wider Indian Ocean satellite for millennia.
Inspired by depictions of past Indian ships and constructed wholly utilizing accepted stitched-plank techniques, INSV Kaundinya represents a uncommon convergence of history, craftsmanship and modern naval expertise, the defence ministry said.
The Indian Navy’s pioneering stitched sailing vessel, which revives India’s past shipbuilding and seafaring traditions, volition undertake her maiden overseas voyage connected December 29, it said.
"Unlike modern vessels, her woody planks are stitched unneurotic utilizing coconut coir enactment and sealed with earthy resins, reflecting a shipbuilding contented erstwhile prevalent on India’s coasts and crossed the Indian Ocean," the ministry said.
This exertion enabled Indian mariners to undertake long-distance voyages to West Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia agelong earlier the advent of modern navigation and metallurgy, the officials said.
The task was undertaken done a tripartite statement betwixt the Ministry of Culture, the Indian Navy and Hodi Innovations arsenic portion of India’s efforts to rediscover and revive indigenous cognition systems.
"Built by accepted artisans nether the guidance of maestro shipwright Shri Babu Sankaran and supported by extended research, plan and investigating by the Indian Navy and world institutions, the vas is afloat seaworthy and susceptible of oceanic navigation," the ministry said successful a statement.
Named aft the legendary mariner Kaundinya, who is believed to person sailed from India to Southeast Asia successful past times, the vessel embodies India's historical relation arsenic a maritime nation.
