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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Submarine for Mahabs museum

Foxtrot class (Project 641)Twelve-year-old Sanjay’s dream to go around a warship and look at the functioning of a submarine will soon become a reality.

The Navy and the ministry of shipping have planned to set up a permanent maritime heritage museum at Mamallapuram with a decommissioned submarine INS Vagli as the centrepiece.

“The Tamil Nadu government gave its approval in July. The project was scheduled to take off in 2007 but was dropped due to change in Navy’s offer from a landing ship and a submarine to a missile boat,” said National Maritime Foundation’s regional director commodore S. Shekhar.

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