INS Vagli

History
India
Name	INS Vagli
Launched	19 April 1973
Commissioned	10 August 1974
Decommissioned	9 December 2010
General characteristics
Class & type	Vela-class submarine
Displacement	1,952 t (1,921 long tons) surfaced 2,475 t (2,436 long tons) submerged
Length	91.3 m (299 ft 6 in)
Beam	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draught	6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) submerged
Range	20,000 mi (32,000 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced 380 mi (610 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) submerged
Test depth	250 m (820 ft)
Complement	75 (incl 8 officers)
Armament	10 x 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes with 22 SET-65E/SAET-60 torpedoes 44 mines in lieu of torpedoes

INS Vagli (S42) was a Vela-class diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy, commissioned in 1974.^[1] Along with her sister ship Vela, she spent almost 10 years undergoing a protracted refit by Hindustan Shipyard.^[2] After 36 years of active service, INS Vagli was decommissioned on 9 December 2010.^[3][4][5]

Submarine museum proposal

It has been proposed to convert INS Vagli into a Submarine museum on the likes of her sister ship INS Kursura. The ship was brought to the Chennai Harbour on 25th March 2013 and later moved to Mammalapuram on April 6. and was handed over to the state for conversion into a Maritime Heritage Museum based near Mamallapuram.^[6][7] However, following various contractural setbacks, the process did not come to fruitation and the submarine was towed to a vacant berth at the chennai port in June 2014. The ship is still maintained by dock officials, though it's condition countinues to deteriorate .^[8][9][10]

References

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8. Desk, India TV News; News, India TV (27 January 2014). "1 worker dies, 2 injured during maintenance work on INS Vagli". India TV News. Retrieved 10 September 2025. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
9. Nair, Sthanu R. (19 February 2020). "Turning ships into museums". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
10. "What happened to TN's maritime heritage museum plan". The Times of India. 7 September 2016. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 September 2025.