Overview
- The commissioning will take place at Goa Shipyard Limited in Vasco with Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, ICG Director General Paramesh Sivamani and other dignitaries in attendance.
- Built by Goa Shipyard Limited with over 60% indigenous content, Samudra Pratap is the first of two pollution control vessels for the Indian Coast Guard and was formally delivered in December.
- The 114.5‑metre, roughly 4,200‑ton ship can exceed 22 knots and sail about 6,000 nautical miles, and it is billed as the largest ship in the Coast Guard fleet.
- Specialized equipment includes an oil fingerprinting machine, a gyro‑stabilised standoff active chemical detector and a pollution control lab, with FiFi‑2/FFV‑2 firefighting certification and DP‑1 dynamic positioning.
- Armament and systems include a 30mm CRN‑91 gun, two 12.7mm remote‑controlled guns, an integrated bridge and platform management suite, and the ship will be based at the Coast Guard’s Kochi unit.