INS Trishul to return home tomorrow after anti-piracy patrol of 120 days

INS Trishul will return to Mumbai on December 23 after completion of her four-month-long mission in the Gulf of Aden. The ship had left Mumbai in August this year for carrying out an anti-piracy patrol in one of the most geostrategically sensitive regions of the world. 

The extended deployment of Trishul reflects the continued commitment of the Indian Navy to ensure security and stability in the key shipping lanes in the IOR and part of the mission-based deployment philosophy the Indian Navy has adopted in recent days.

During the deployment, the ship traversed a distance of more than 26,000 nautical miles (approx 48000 km) are entered at Salalah, Oman and Djibouti for operational turn around, carried out a bilateral exercise with the Italian Navy and exchanged visits with Italian, Russian, American, Japanese, Bangladesh Navy/ Coast Guard ships. 

On October 6, 2017, Trishul successfully thwarted a piracy attempt on MV Jag Amar, an Indian merchant ship. The ship also escorted more than 50 merchant ships safely through the waters of Gulf of Aden and Somalia.