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INS Sagardhwani is a research ship. It was built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers , Kolkata.
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INS Sagardhwani
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers , Kolkata
May 1991
30 July 1994
Kochi , India
IMO number : 8802818 Callsign : VVXQ
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Research ship
2,050 long tons (2,083 t ) full load
85.1 m (279 ft) o/a
12.8 m (42 ft)
2 × diesel engines 3,860 hp (2,880 kW) sustained 2 shafts 2 auxiliary thrusters
16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
200 days
80, plus 16 scientists
Racal Decca 1629 radar at I-band frequency
1 × HAL Chetak
Helicopter landing pad
Internally, the ship has eight laboratories for various scientific disciplines, and a mini-operating theatre with medical staff. At the stern is handling equipment for mooring and retrieving oceanographic and acoustic buoys. It can accommodate up to 82 persons, including 16 scientists, and a crew of 8 officers and 58 sailors.
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INS Sagardhwani equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
IndiaNavy exact named equipment holdings: Sagardhwani. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT / AGOR. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.