A major fire broke out on board INS Sindhurakshak at the Naval
Dockyard in Mumbai on 14 August 2013. An explosion on board damaged the
submarine. The fire was doused in time and prevented from spreading to
other vessels docked in the vicinity.
INS Sindhurakshak is the ninth of the ten Sindhughosh-class
diesel-electric submarines of the Indian Navy. On 4 June 2010, the
Indian Defence Ministry and Zvezdochka shipyard signed a contract worth
80 million US dollars to upgrade and improve the submarine. The
submarine suffered two fire incidents, a minor one in 2010 and a major
one on 14 August 2013, which led to in its sinking at Mumbai's naval
dockyards.
Sindhurakshak was constructed in Admiralty Shipyard, St. Petersburg.
Construction of the submarine started in 1995. It was launched in June
1997 and delivered in December 1997. A fire broke out aboard
Sindhurakshak while the vessel was in Visakhapatnam in February 2010.
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