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!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:Naval Ensign of India.svg|60px|none|Indian Ensign]]
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|Ordered:
|[[2003]]
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|Launched:
|[[03 April]] [[2004]]
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|Commissioned:
|[[04 January]] [[2007]]
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|Decommissioned:
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|Fate:
|Active Service
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|Struck:
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:
|5600 tons - Standard
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|Length:
|124.8 metres
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|Beam:
|17.5 metres
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|Draught:
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|Propulsion:
| Kirloskar PA6 STC engines
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|Speed:
|15.8 knots
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|Range:
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|Complement:
|11 main battle tanks, 10 army vehicles and 500 troops excluding ship crew
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|Armament:
|WM-18 rocket launcher, SAM, Naval Medak gun, CRN 91 guns
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|Aircraft:
|[[HAL Dhruv]]/[[Westland Sea King|Sea King]]
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|Motto:
|''All for one, One for all''
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'''INS ''Shardul (L16)''''' is the lead ship of the [[Shardul class- Large Landing Ship Tank|Shardul class LST(L)]] of the [[Indian Navy]]. Its name means "Royal Bengal tiger".
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*The first-of-the-class Landing ship tank (Large), Shardul (Royal Bengal tiger), was launched in 03 April 2004. The ship was handed over to the navy for trials on 3rd November 2006 and commissioned into the Indian Navy, on 4th January 2007 by the defence minister A.K Antony in Karwar at the [[INS Kadamba]] base. The ship was based under the Southern Naval Command in Kochi to train cadets before the commissioning of INS Kesari and INS Airavat.<ref>[http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/406200707172032.htm 'INS Shardul' engaged in training for naval cadets]</ref>
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#{{note|Best}}[http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/05/stories/2007010501452000.htm INS Shardul dedicated] Article in the [[Hindu]]
==External links==
*[http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Shardul.html Shardul class @ Bharat-rakshak.com]
*[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/l-shardul.htm LST(L) Shardul @ Global security.com]
[[Category:Indian Navy ships|Shardul]]
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