INS Venduruthy is an

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 ...

base located on Willingdon Island in Kochi,

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. It serves as the Headquarters of the Southern Naval Command. It is the largest training establishment of the Indian Navy. INS Garuda is a

naval air station A Naval Air Station (NAS) is a military air base, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of a navy (Naval aviation). These bases are typically populated by squadron ...

located adjacent to INS Venduruthy. Commodore Deepak Kumar is the Commanding officer of this base. It provides administrative facilities to all training establishments inside the Southern naval command. Pincode of INS Vendurathy is 682004.

History

Willingdon Island was reclaimed from Kochi Lake to aid the construction of the Port of Kochi in 1936. A small naval unit was set up at the location just two days prior to the outbreak of

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. During the war, the rudimentary air strip near the port was transferred to the

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in 1941. On 22 June 1943, the facilities were transferred to the

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. With the ongoing war, the base quickly expanded to become the headquarters of the Royal Navy in southern India. In 1946, after the end of the war, the base was deserted and transferred to the

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which maintained a small establishment of about 20 officers and 130 enlisted men. The name of the establishment was changed from ''HMS Chinkara'' to ''HMIS Venduruthy'' after the name of the original Venduruthy island. On 26 January 1950, when India became a

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, the name was changed to ''INS Venduruthy''. Following the

partition of India The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Paki ...

, the navy lost three major training establishments which were located in the

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. ''INS Venduruthy'' was chosen as the location to replace these.

Facilities

INS Venduruthy currently hosts the ''Seamanship School'', which imparts training to executive officers and

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of the

and several friendly foreign naval forces. The establishment caters to the logistic needs of the services, civilian personnel and naval units based in Kochi as well as at Ezhimala,

Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...

, Bangalore and the Lakshadweep Islands besides the naval NCC units.
''Defence India'' for 20 June 2005 It also hosts the Diving School, Navigation & Direction (ND) School,

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(ASW) School, Signal School, Centre for Leadership and Behavioural Studies (CLABS) and NIETT.

References

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History

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