Indian Navy corvette collided with a container carrier in the Bay of Bengal in the early hours of Friday. However, there are no casualties, but the Naval ship suffered minor damage.
According to Navy official spokesperson Eastern Naval Command’s guided-missile corvette INS Kora collided with a Marshall Island flag carrying container carrier MV Madeleine Rickmers some 300 nautical miles south east off Visakhapatnam coast in the early hours of Friday.
While the merchant ship did not suffer any damage, the corvette has sustained minor damage.
However, there are no operational limitations and she is continuing with her mission.
A Board of Inquiry has been constituted to ascertain the cause of the incident.
INS Kora is one of the four vessels built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers and outfitted at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).
MV Madeleine Rickmers is a container cargo ship owned by Hamburg-based German maritime company Rickmers Group.
Published - October 31, 2014 11:40 pm IST
