PS Topaz
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PS Topaz is a Trinkat-class patrol vessel owned and operated by the Seychelles Coast Guard. She was formerly operated by the Indian Navy as INS Tarmugli (T64). India, like China and the United Arab Emirates, have helped equip the Seychelles Coast Guard with patrol vessels.[1][2][3][4][5] India, China, and the UAE helped equip the tiny Seychelles with these patrol vessels due to its strategic location, very near the area off the Horn of Africa that is notorious for pirate attacks.
PS Topaz in 2013 | |
History | |
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India | |
Name | INS Tarmugli |
Namesake | Tarmugli Island |
Builder | Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers |
Commissioned | 4 March 2002 |
Identification | T64 |
Fate | Transferred to Seychelles Coast Guard on 23 February 2005 |
Seychelles | |
Name | PS Topaz |
Commissioned | 23 February 2005 |
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Trinkat-class patrol vessel |
In 2005, she was the first vessel India turned over to Seychelles.[6] A sister ship, re-christened PS Constant, was transferred in 2014.[7]
It participated in anti-piracy action of 30 March 2010.
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