GRSE Becomes First Indian Shipyard To Deliver 100 Warships
- Kolkata based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) has become the first Indian Shipyard to make and deliver 100 warships to the Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and Mauritius Coast Guard.
- GRSE formally delivered its 100th Warship, a Landing Craft Utility (LCU), L-56, to the Indian Navy on March 30, 2019.
- The IN LCU L-56 is the sixth of an order of eight such vessels and was formally hand over by Rear Admiral V. K. Saxena, IN (Retd.), Chairman & Managing Director, GRSE to the Commanding Officer of the Ship, Lt. Cdr. Gopinath Narayanan, Indian Navy.
- Besides, GRSE had handed over its 99th warship named ‘ICGS Priyadarshini’, an advanced ‘Fast Patrol Vessel’, to the Indian Coast Guard on March 27, 2019.