Indian Navy ship sailing with all-women crew enters Chennai Port Saturday February 13,2016

 

The Indian Navy’s ship, Mhadei, having an all-women crew of naval officers, entered Chennai Port on Saturday February 13,2016, after participating in the International Fleet Review 2016.

This is the first all-women crew to man any ocean-going ship of the Navy.

The vessel which had left Visakhapatnam on February 9,2016 is scheduled to make stops at Chennai and Kochi ports en route before reaching her home port at Goa

Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, a Naval Architect, was appointed as the first woman Skipper of Mhadei on February 8. The boat is crewed by Lieutenants P Swathi, Pratibha Jamwal (Air Traffic Control specialists), Vijaya Devi and Sub Lieutenant Payal Gupta (both Education officers). The sixth member of the crew, Lieutenant B Aishwarya is an Engineer and is expected to join the boat in March

The women officers are training to form an all-women crew that would attempt to circumnavigate the Globe next year.

 

Mhadei will return to Goa on March 02,2016