According to an official, the Indian Navy decommissioned the INS Gomati, a Godavari class guided-missile frigate that had been in service for 34 years.
The ship, which has participated in Operations Cactus, Parakram, and Rainbow, was decommissioned at the Naval Dockyard here at sunset, according to the official.
It was announced that the ship’s memory will be preserved in an open-air museum being built on the picturesque banks of the Gomati River near Lucknow, where several of her combat systems will be displayed as military and war relics.
A Memorandum of Understanding has also been inked between the Uttar Pradesh government and the Indian Navy in this regard.
INS Gomati, named after the vivacious river Gomti, was commissioned on April 16, 1988, at Mazgaon Dock Ltd in Bombay, by then-Defense Minister K C Pant.
The ship received the coveted Unit Citation twice, once in 2007-08 and again in 2019-20, according to the Navy.
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