INS Amba to be decommissioned on July 15

Visakhapatnam, July 14 (UNI) Eastern Naval Command (ENC) Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice Admiral Suresh Mehta will decommission INS 'Amba' at a cermony to be held here tomorrow.

ENC, in a release here today, said the INS Amba, an ugra class submarine depot ship served the nation and the Indian navy for 38 years.

INS Amba was the last of the ships which extensively participated in the 1971 war with Pakistan.

The decommissioning ceremony, will see a traditional 'pay off of the ship with the naval band playing the 'Last Post'and lowering of the national flag and the naval ensign.

The INS Amba was commissioned on December 28, 1968 by the then Capt Shunker at Odessa in erstwhile USSR.

As a submarine depot ship, her major role was to provide both operational and administrative support to the submarine squadron.

With her intrinsic heavy duty repair bays, torpedo workshops, medical facilities and huge accommodation space, she enabled long deployment of the submarines away from the base ports both in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, the release added.

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