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INS Khukri sails into sunset after 32 years of service

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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Indian Naval Ship Khukri, the first of the indigenously built Missile Corvettes, was decommissioned after 32 years of glorious service on Thursday.</span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The ship solemn ceremony was held at Visakhapatnam wherein the national flag, naval ensign, and the decommissioning pennant were lowered at sunset in the presence of Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command, the Chief Guest for the ceremony and some serving and retired former commanding officers of the ship.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The corvette was built by the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders on 23rd August 1989 and had the distinction of being part of both the Western and Eastern Fleets. The ship was commissioned in Mumbai by Krishna Chandra Pant, the then Defence Minister and Sudha Mulla, wife of late Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla, MVC with Commander (now Vice Admiral Retired) Sanjeev Bhasin as her first Commanding Officer.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="Khukri" src="https://www.indianarrative.com/upload/news/khukri2.webp" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" /></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">During its service, the ship was commanded by 28 Commanding Officers and traversed a distance of over 6,44,897 nautical miles, which is equivalent to navigating around the world 30 times or three times the distance between the earth and the moon.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="Khukri" src="https://www.indianarrative.com/upload/news/khukri1.webp" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" /></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The ship was affiliated with the Gorkha Brigade of the Indian Army and Lt General PN Ananthanarayan, SM, President Gorkha Brigade, attended the solemn ceremony.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" />
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IN Bureau

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