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INS Kora scraped by merchant vessel
Indian Naval ship Kora was scraped by a foreign merchant vessel early on Friday, about 300 NM at sea from Visakhapatnam, which led to \"minor damage\" on its side.
Minor damage to Naval ship reported
Visakhapatnam/New Delhi: Indian Naval ship Kora was scraped by a foreign merchant vessel early on Friday, about 300 NM at sea from Visakhapatnam, which led to "minor damage" on its side.
The Navy said there had been no damage to the watertight integrity of the ship or any injuries or loss of life.
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It described the incident as a "minor accident" and added that a Board of Inquiry (BoI) was being constituted to investigate into the circumstances leading to the incident. "INS Kora had reported minor damage to her ship's side," an official statement said.
Navy sources said the accident occurred at about 3 am when a merchant vessel Madelieine Rickmers, carrying a flag of Marshall Island, scraped INS Kora, a missile corvette.
INS Kora and INS Gaj were on passage from Visakhapatnam to Port Blair when the accident happened. The merchant vessel, a 23,000-tonne cargo ship, was coming from Chittagong in Bangladesh to Colombo. Following the incident, the ship was stopped and a verification done by Naval personnel.
The sources said it would be allowed to continue its journey once they got the written commitment from the ship company that it would cooperate in the BoI.
