The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has inducted its first indigenously designed and built Pollution Control Vessel (PCV), ‘Samudra Pratap’ (Yard 1267).
Samudra Pratap is the largest vessel in the ICG fleet, measuring 114.5 meters in length, 16.5 meters in breadth, and displacing 4,170 tonnes. With more than 60 percent indigenous content
The ship is equipped with modern systems, including a 30mm CRN-91 gun, two 12.7mm stabilised remote-controlled guns with integrated fire control systems, an indigenously developed Integrated Bridge System, an Integrated Platform Management System, an automated Power Management System, a shaft generator, a Sea boat davit, a PR boat with davit, and a high-capacity external firefighting system.
These systems allow the ship to detect oil spills, recover pollutants from viscous oil, analyze contaminants, and separate oil from contaminated water.