FINAL JOURNEY

In the last three months, it was stripped of its weapons, radars, propulsion systems, auxiliary machinery and communication equipment at the state-owned Cochin Shipyard It is still not clear if the warship will be reborn as a museum, turned into a tourist attraction or preserved as a war memorial The Navy doesn’t want it to end up at a ship-breaking yard

In 2014, Vikrant, India’s first aircraft carrier, was auctioned and sold to a ship-breaker for `60 crore. The navy operated Vikrant from 1961 to 1997, and the country’s first indigenous carrier being built at Kochi is named after it