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Kerala Governor to commission CG ship

By Our Special Correspondent

KOCHI APRIL 25. The Kerala Governor, Sikander Bakht, will commission the Coast Guard ship, Durgabai Deshmukh, here on Tuesday. This is the second of the new generation fast patrol vessel designed and built by the Goa Shipyard for the Coast Guard. In the last two years, the Coast Guard in Kerala has expanded manifold and has added to its inventory one offshore vessel, one Dornier squadron and one interceptor boat at the newly-activated station at Vizhinjam, near Thiruvananthapuram city.

It has also plans to open another boat station at Beypore, near Kozhikode, says a release.

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