- Dismantling of the world’s longest serving warship, INS Viraat, will begin in Alang, three years after it was decommissioned by the Indian Navy.
- The Centaur-class aircraft carrier of Indian Navy that remained in service for almost 30 years and holds the Guinness record for world’s longest serving warship will be dismantled here at one of the largest shipbreaking yards globally.
- Efforts were made to convert INS Viraat into a museum and several consultations were done but the plan could not materialise as an expert committee reported that it won’t last for more than a decade.
- INS Viraat was commissioned in 1959 as Royal Navy’s HMS Hermes and decommissioned in 1984 and subsequently it was sold to India and commissioned into Indian Navy on May 12, 1987.