The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Tuesday inducted its first in-built Pollution Control Vessel (PCV), Samudra Pratap (Yard 1267), marking a milestone in strengthening the country’s maritime environmental protection capabilities. The vessel has been designed and constructed by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) under the two-ship PCV project.
With over 60 per cent indigenous content, the induction of Samudra Pratap underscores the government’s ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives. It is the first indigenously designed and built pollution control vessel to be commissioned into the Indian Coast Guard and is also the largest ship in the ICG fleet.
Measuring 114.5 metres in length and 16.5 metres in breadth, with a displacement of 4,170 tonnes, the vessel is equipped with advanced systems to enhance operational reach and response capability. Its armament includes a 30 mm CRN-91 gun and two 12.7 mm stabilised remote-controlled guns integrated with fire control systems. The ship also features an indigenously developed Integrated Bridge System, Integrated Platform Management System, Automated Power Management System, and a high-capacity external firefighting system.
Samudra Pratap is the first Indian Coast Guard ship fitted with Dynamic Positioning capability (DP-1) and holds FiFi-2/FFV-2 notation certification. It is equipped with specialised systems to detect and respond to oil spills, including an oil fingerprinting machine, a gyro-stabilised standoff active chemical detector, and onboard pollution control laboratory equipment. These capabilities enable high-precision pollution response operations, recovery of viscous oil, analysis of contaminants, and separation of oil from contaminated water within India’s Exclusive Economic Zone and beyond.
The induction ceremony was attended by Deputy Inspector General V K Parmar, Principal Director (Materials), Indian Coast Guard, along with Brajesh Kumar Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director of Goa Shipyard Limited, and other senior officials from the Coast Guard and GSL.
