Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) is one of India's leading shipyards. It is located on the West Coast of India at Vasco da Gama, Goa at  . It was established in 1957, originally by the Portuguese-India govt as "Estaleiros Navais de Goa"[412774], to build barges to be used in Goa's growing mining industry, which took off after the establishment of India's blockade of Goa in 1955. After the liberation of Goa by the Indian armed forces in 1961, it was requisitioned to manufacture warships for the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard.

GSL is undergoing a modernizing of its yard to adapt to the latest technology in shipbuilding. To this purpose it is negotiating with well known shipbuilders for an arrangement to collaborate. To date it has built 167 vessels including barges, tugs, landing craft, offshore patrol vessels and other vessels for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard and for export to countries like Yemen.

A new slipway has been commissioned to take up major repair jobs of ships in the dry dock area. A damage control simulator and two double boom level luffing cranes for heavy lifting have been constructed.

Military ships built

GSL has built the following ships for military use:

Landing craft Mark II

• L34 - commissioned 28 January 1980
• L33 - 1 December 1980
• L35 - 11 December 1983
• L36 - 18 July 1986
• L37 - 18 October 1986
• L38 - 10 December 1986
• L39 - 25 March 1987

Vikram class offshore patrol vessel

• CGS Varad (40) - 19 July 1990
• CGS Varaha (41) - 19 July 1990

Samar class offshore patrol vessel

• CGS Samar (42) - 14 February 1996
• CGS Sangram (43) - 29 March 1997
• CGS Sarang (44) - 21 June 1999
• CGS Sagar (45) - 03 November 2003

Tarantul I class missile corvette

• INS Vinash (K47) - 20 November 1993
• INS Vidyut (K48) - 16 January 1995
• INS Prahar (K98) - 1 March 1997 Lost at sea on 22 April 2006
• INS Pralaya (K91) - Missile Corvette 18 December 2002

Extra fast patrol vessel

• CGS Sarojini Naidu (229) - 11 November 2002
• CGS Durgabai Deshmukh (230) - 29 April 2003
• CGS Kasturba Gandhi (231) - 28 October 2005
• CGS Aruna Asaf Ali (232) - 28 January 2006
• CGS Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (233) - 28 April 2006

In 1997, GSL built the three-masted barque INS Tarangini for use as a training ship for the Indian Navy.

Other products

• Tugboat
• Surface effect ships
• Hovercrafts
• High speed aluminium hulled vessels
• Pollution control vessels
• Advanced deep sea commercial trawlers
• Fish factory vessels, Catamarans

See also

• Cochin Shipyard
• Mazagon Dock Limited
• Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers

References

1. {{cite web |url = http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Veer.html |title = VEER {TARANTUL I} CLASS |accessdate = 2007-12-14 |publisher = Bharat Rakshak}}