Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) is a

public sector undertaking Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) in India are State-owned enterprise, government-owned entities in which at least 51% of stake is under the ownership of the Government of India or State governments of India, state governments. These types of f ...

for defence ship building located on the West Coast of India at

Vasco da Gama, Goa Vasco da Gama (), often shortened to Vasco, is a city in the state of Goa on the west coast of India. It is named after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. It is sometimes also referred to as Sambhaji Nagar after Sambhaji. It is the headq ...

. It was established in 1957, originally by the colonial government of the Portuguese in India as the "Estaleiros Navais de Goa", to build barges to be used in

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

's growing mining industry, which took off after the establishment of India's blockade of Goa in 1955. In the wake of Portugal's defeat and unconditional surrender to India following the

1961 Indian annexation of Goa The Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed the Portuguese State of India, the then Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, Daman and Diu, starting with the armed action carried out by the Indian Armed Force ...

, it was requisitioned to manufacture warships for the

Indian Navy The Indian Navy (IN) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Navy, maritime and Amphibious warfare, amphibious branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Chief ...

and the

Indian Coast Guard The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and Exclusive economic zone of India, exclusive economic zone. It was st ...

. GSL is undergoing a modernisation of its yard to adapt to the latest technology in shipbuilding. To this purpose it is negotiating with well-known shipbuilders for an arrangement to collaborate. To date it has built 167 vessels, including barges, tugs, landing craft, offshore patrol vessels and other vessels for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard and for export to countries like Yemen. Goa Shipyard unlike

Cochin Shipyard Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) is the largest shipbuilding and maintenance facility in India. Cochin Shipyard is part of a line of maritime-related facilities in the port-city of Kochi, in the States and union territories of India, state of Kerala, ...

and

Hindustan Shipyard Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) is a public sector undertaking shipyard located in Visakhapatnam, on the east coast of India. HSL is a major shipyard in India, with a capacity to manufacture vessels up to 80,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT). The s ...

cannot manufacture big vessels of capacity above 15,000 DWT, the average Deadweight Tonnage (DWT) capacity of a ship worldwide is around 60,000 to 80,000 DWT. A new slipway has been commissioned to take up major repair jobs of ships in the dry dock area. A damage control simulator and two double boom level luffing cranes for heavy lifting have been constructed.

Military ships built

GSL has built the following ships for military use:

Landing craft Mark II

* ''L34'' – commissioned 28 January 1980 * ''L33'' – 1 December 1980 * ''L35'' – 11 December 1983 * ''L36'' – 18 July 1986 * ''L37'' – 18 October 1986 * ''L38'' – 10 December 1986 * ''L39'' – 25 March 1987

''Saryu'' class offshore patrol vessel

* INS ''Saryu'' (P54) * INS ''Sunayna'' (P58) * SLNS '' Sayurala'' (P623) *SLNS Sindurala (P624)

''Vikram'' class offshore patrol vessel

* CGS ''Varad'' (40) – 19 July 1990 * CGS ''

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'' (41) – 19 July 1990

''Samar'' class offshore patrol vessel

* CGS ''

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'' (42) – 14 February 1996 * CGS ''Sangram'' (43) – 29 March 1997 * CGS ''Sarang'' (44) – 21 June 1999 * CGS '' Sagar'' (45) – 3 November 2003

''Tarantul I'' class missile corvette

* INS ''Vinash'' (K47) – 20 November 1993 * INS ''Vidyut'' (K48) – 16 January 1995 * INS ''Prahar'' (K98) – 1 March 1997 Lost at sea on 22 April 2006 * INS ''Pralaya'' (K91) – Missile Corvette 18 December 2002

Extra fast patrol vessel

* CGS ''Sarojini Naidu'' (229) – 11 November 2002 * CGS ''Durgabai Deshmukh'' (230) – 29 April 2003 * CGS ''Kasturba Gandhi'' (231) – 28 October 2005 * CGS ''Aruna Asaf Ali'' (232) – 28 January 2006 * CGS ''Subhadra Kumari Chauhan'' (233) – 28 April 2006 In 1997, GSL built the three-masted

barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are Square rig, rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-maste ...

INS ''Tarangini'' for use as a

training ship A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house class ...

for the

Offshore Patrol Vessel

* – 10 November 2015

Future ships

GSL has been nominated to build the following class of ships for the Indian Navy and

Coast Guard A coast guard or coastguard is a Maritime Security Regimes, maritime security organization of a particular country. The term embraces wide range of responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with cust ...

Future Indian minehunter class

GSL will jointly build twelve Mine Counter-Measure Vessels in collaboration with a ToT partner selected as per procedure.

Talwar class frigates

GSL will build two Talwar-class frigates in collaboration with Russia's United Ship Building.

Fast Patrol Boats For Indian Army

GSL has bagged an Order of Rs.65 Crore from Indian Army to build 12 fast patrol boats for the surveillance and patrolling at large water bodies. The First Vessel is expected to be delivered by July end of 2021.

Future Pollution Control vessels

GSL will Construct two Pollution Control Vessels for the Indian Coast Guard. These vessels will be independently designed, developed and built by GSL. Both vessels are scheduled for delivery by November 2024, and May 2025, respectively.

Other products

Tugboat A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line. These boats typically tug ships in circumstances where they cannot or should not move under their own power, suc ...

Surface effect ship A surface effect ship (SES) or sidewall hovercraft is a watercraft that has both an air cushion, like a hovercraft, and twin hulls, like a catamaran. When the air cushion is in use, a small portion of the twin hulls remains in the water. When th ...

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Hovercraft A hovercraft (: hovercraft), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the ...

* High-speed aluminium-hulled vessels *

Pollution control Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause harm. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the component ...

vessels * Advanced deep sea

commercial trawler A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets that ...

s * Fish factory vessels,

Catamaran A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is requi ...

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Ferry A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus ...

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