[PTI]Indonesian Navy’s Sail Training Ship, KRI Dewaruci, is here on a three-day goodwill visit.The ship, with 81-member crew, is used as Training vessel for naval cadets and is the ‘largest tall ship’ of the Indonesian fleet. The vessel, which arrived here on Apr 3, will leave for Salalah tomorrow, Indian Navy sources said. Named after an Indonesian mythological God of Truth and Courage, ‘Dewaruci’, is a class ‘A’ tall ship owned and operated by the Indonesia Navy. It also acts as Goodwill Ambassador of Indonesia, sources said. Built in 1952 in Germany and launched on Jan 24, 1953, the ship is 58.27 metres long, 9.5 metres wide, 36.48 metre tall, and has DWT of 847 tonnes and highly sophisticated navigational computerised system, sources said.
It has three main masts named after Indian mythological characters–Bhima, Yudishtara and Arjuna and 16 sails.
The crew of the ship led by commanding officer LT Col SH Suharto, called on Chief of Staff Rear Admiral SS Jamwal and interacted with their counterparts in the Indian Navy.
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