Goa Shipyard


Goa Shipyard Limited is a public sector undertaking for defence ship building located on the West Coast of India at Vasco da Gama, Goa. It was established in 1957, originally by the colonial government of the Portuguese in India as the "Estaleiros Navais de Goa", 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. In the wake of Portugal's defeat and unconditional surrender to India following the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa, it was requisitioned to manufacture warships for the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.
GSL is undergoing a modernisation 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.
Goa Shipyard unlike Cochin Shipyard and Hindustan Shipyard cannot manufacture big vessels of capacity above 15,000 DWT, the average Deadweight Tonnage capacity of a ship worldwide is around 60,000 to 80,000 DWT.
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.
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Military ships built

GSL has built the following ships for military use:

Landing craft Mark II

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

''Saryu'' class offshore patrol vessel">Saryu-class patrol vessel">''Saryu'' class offshore patrol vessel

[Vikram-class offshore [patrol vessel (2017)|''Vikram'' class offshore patrol vessel]]

  • CGS Varad – 19 July 1990
  • CGS Varaha – 19 July 1990

''Samar'' class offshore patrol vessel">Samar-class offshore patrol vessel">''Samar'' class offshore patrol vessel

''Tarantul I'' class missile corvette (Veer class">Veer-class corvette">Veer class)

Sarojini Naidu class">Sarojini Naidu-class patrol vessel">Sarojini Naidu class extra fast patrol vessel

  • CGS Sarojini Naidu – 11 November 2002
  • CGS Durgabai Deshmukh – 29 April 2003
  • CGS Kasturba Gandhi – 28 October 2005
  • CGS Aruna Asaf Ali – 28 January 2006
  • CGS Subhadra Kumari Chauhan – 28 April 2006

Samarth class Offshore Patrol Vessel">Samarth-class offshore patrol vessel">Samarth class Offshore Patrol Vessel

  • ICGS Samarth – 10 November 2015
  • ICGS Shoor – 11 April 2016
  • ICGS Sarathi – 9 September 2016
  • ICGS Shaunak – 21 February 2017
  • ICGS Shaurya – 12 Augusr 2017
  • ICGS Sujay – 21 December 2017
  • ICGS Sachet – 15 May 2020
  • ICGS Sujeet – 15 December 2020
  • ICGS Sajag – 10 November 2015
  • ICGS Sarthak – 28 October 2021
  • ICGS Saksham – 16 March 2022

GSL class Pollution Control Vessel">GSL-class pollution control vessel">GSL class Pollution Control Vessel

Sailing vessels

In 1997, GSL built the three-masted barque INS Tarangini for use as a sail training ship for the Indian Navy.A sister ship, INS Sudarshini was also built in 2011. Both ships are based with the Southern Naval Command in Kochi.

Future ships

GSL has been nominated to build the following class of ships for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard:

Future Indian minehunter class

GSL will jointly build twelve Mine Counter-Measure Vessels in collaboration with a ToT partner selected as per procedure.

Talwar class frigates

GSL will build two Talwar-class frigates in collaboration with Russia's United Ship Building.

Fast Patrol Boats For Indian Army

GSL has bagged an Order of Rs.65 Crore from Indian Army to build 12 fast patrol boats for the surveillance and patrolling at large water bodies. The First Vessel is expected to be delivered by July end of 2021.

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