The Victory at Sea Memorial ( te, విక్టరీ ఎట్ సీ) is an Indian memorial constructed after the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 Decem ...

which is dedicated to the

Indian Navy The Indian Navy is the maritime branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy. As a blue-water navy, it operates si ...

and the Eastern Naval Command sailors. It was constructed in 1996. It is located on

Beach Road, Visakhapatnam Beach Road (also known as, Visakhapatnam Beach Road) is a major highway road in Visakhapatnam. It is home to tourist destinations such as RK Beach and Kailasagiri Kailasagiri is a hilltop park in the city of Visakhapatnam in the Indian stat ...

History

In the 1971 liberation war in

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Myanmar, wi ...

, the Pakistan Navy targeted the

Visakhapatnam Port Visakhapatnam Port is one of 13 major ports in India and the only major port of Andhra Pradesh. It is India's third largest state-owned port by volume of cargo handled and largest on the Eastern Coast. It is located midway between the Chennai a ...

to destroy the Indian aircraft carrier but the Indian Navy sunk the Pakistani submarine PNS ''Ghazi'' at the coast of Visakhapatnam and took the first battle victory in that war.

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