Hindustan Shipyard

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{{Infobox company
| name = Hindustan Shipyard Limited
| logo = File:Hindustan_Shipyard_Limited_Logo.png
| type = [[Public sector undertakings in India|Public Sector Undertaking]]
| image = What is Shipyard.jpg
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| key_people = Commodore Hemant Khatri, (Retd.), C&MD
| industry = [[Shipbuilding]]
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| services = [[Ship building]] <br/> [[Ship repair]] <br/> [[Submarine Construction and Refits]]
| revenue = {{decrease}}{{INRConvert|546.48|c}} (2019)<ref name="Hindustan Shipyard 2019">[https://www.hslvizag.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/AnnualReports/67AR_2018-19_E.pdf "Balance Sheet 31.03.2019"].</ref>
| operating_income = {{increase}}{{INRConvert|49.22|c}} (2019)<ref name="Hindustan Shipyard 2019"/>
| profit = {{increase}}{{INRConvert|36.23|c}} (2019)<ref name="Hindustan Shipyard 2019"/>
| assets = {{increase}}{{INRConvert|1350.37|c}} (2019)<ref name="Hindustan Shipyard 2019"/>
| equity = {{increase}}{{INRConvert|-577.07|c}} (2019)<ref name="Hindustan Shipyard 2019"/>
| num_employees = 1473 (March 2019)<ref name="Hindustan Shipyard 2019"/>
| owner = [[Government of India]]
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| homepage = {{URL|www.hslvizag.in}}
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| foundation = {{Start date|df=yes|1941|06|21}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2017-11-24/Hindustan-Shipyard-Limited-celebrates-Foundation-Day/341178 |title=Hindustan Shipyard Limited celebrates Foundation Day |date=24 November 2017}}</ref>
| location_city = [[Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh]]
| location_country = [[India]]
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'''Hindustan Shipyard Limited''' (HSL) is a shipyard located in [[Visakhapatnam]] on the east coast of [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Latest-News/2018-11-23/Hindustan-Shipyard-Limited-celebrates-founders-day/446450 |title=Hindustan Shipyard Limited celebrates founders day |last=Gayatri |first=V. K. L. |date=2018-11-23 |website=www.thehansindia.com |access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Hsl view.jpg|thumb|250x250px|[[File:HSL view 2.jpg|thumb|250px]]Aerial View of HSL]]
Founded as the ''Scindia Shipyard'', it was built by industrialist [[Walchand Hirachand]] as a part of [[The Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd.]]<ref name=it-waves>{{cite news |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/HINDUSTAN+SHIPYARD:+Making+Waves/1/65621.html |title=Hindustan Shipyard: Making Waves |publisher=India Today |date=9 October 2009 |access-date=9 September 2011}}</ref> Walchand selected Visakhapatnam<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pmindia.nic.in/content_print.php?nodeid=47&nodetype=2 |title=PM's speech at the release of a Commemorative Postage Stamp honouring Seth Walchand Hirachand |access-date=2 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111190830/http://pmindia.nic.in/content_print.php?nodeid=47&nodetype=2 |archive-date=11 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> as a suitable location for the construction of the yard and took possession of the land in November 1940.<ref name=bl/> The foundation stone for the shipyard was laid by Dr. [[Rajendra Prasad]] on 21 June 1941, who was at that time the acting [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] President.<ref name=bl>{{cite book |title=Business Legends By Gita Piramal |year=1999 |pages=165 |isbn=9780140271874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gt5WXOQ08DYC&q=walchand+shipyard&pg=PA165 |last1=Piramal |first1=Gita}}</ref><ref name=hsl-about>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsl.nic.in/aboutus.html |title=About Us |publisher=Hindustan Shipyard Limited |access-date=9 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008112425/http://www.hsl.nic.in/aboutus.html |archive-date=8 October 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The first ship to be constructed fully in India after independence was built at the Scindia Shipyard and named ''Jal Usha''. It was launched in 1948 by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] at a ceremony where the families of Seth Walchand Hirachnd, late [[Narottam Morarjee]], and [[Tulsidas Kilachand]], the partners of Scindia Shipyard, were present along with other dignitaries and industrialists.

Walchand died in 1953, and the Scindia Shipyard continued to operate successfully under the next of kin of the founders. However, in 1961 the shipyard was nationalised and renamed Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL).

In 2010, HSL was transferred from the Ministry of Shipping to the Ministry of Defence. The yard played a critical role in the development of the nuclear-powered [[Arihant class submarine]].<ref name=toi-transfer>{{cite news |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-24/india/28091316_1_hindustan-shipyard-defence-ministry-hsl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926143826/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-24/india/28091316_1_hindustan-shipyard-defence-ministry-hsl |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 September 2012 |title=Govt moves Hindustan Shipyard to Defence ministry |date=24 December 2009 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=9 September 2011}}</ref>

==Facilities==
The shipyard is relatively compact at {{cvt|46.2|ha|km2}}. It is equipped with the [[plasma cutting]] machines, steel processing and welding facilities, material handling equipment, cranes, logistics and storage facilities. It also has testing and measuring facilities.

It has a covered building dock for building vessels up to 80,000 DWT. There are three slipways and a {{cvt|550|m|ft}} [[fitting-out]] jetty.<ref name=hsl-sb>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsl.nic.in/sb.html |title=Ship Building |publisher=Hindustan Shipyard Limited |access-date=9 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008112342/http://www.hsl.nic.in/sb.html |archive-date=8 October 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

HSL has a [[dry dock]], wet basin and repair delphin for ship and [[submarine]] repair and retrofitting.<ref name=hsl-sr>{{cite web |url=http://www.hsl.nic.in/sr.html |title=Ship Repairs |publisher=Hindustan Shipyard Limited |access-date=9 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008112209/http://www.hsl.nic.in/sr.html |archive-date=8 October 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Vessels==
By 2009, over 192 vessels had been built at HSL through 2009 and the shipyard had repaired almost 2000 ships. It builds [[bulk carrier]]s, [[offshore patrol vessel]]s, survey ships, drill ships, [[offshore platform]]s and repair and support vessels.<ref name=it-waves/>

It also conducts major overhauls of Indian Navy submarines, and is being equipped to construct nuclear-powered submarines. However, the shipyard has a history of protracted refits. The submarines [[INS Vela (S40)|''Vela'']], [[INS Vagli (S42)|''Vagli'']], and [[INS Sindhukirti (S61)|''Sindhukirti'']] each spent almost 10 years for a single refit at HSL. Where a Russian shipyard would deploy 200 workers in three shifts to complete the refit in two years, HSL deployed only 50 workers to work on ''Sindhukirti''.<ref name="indiatoday2008">{{cite news |last1=Unnithan |first1=Sandeep |title=Navy's sub induction plan suffers blow |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Navys+sub+induction+plan+suffers+blow/1/20342.html |work=India Today |date=November 17, 2008}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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[https://www.hslvizag.in/ Website]

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[[Category:Shipyards of India]]
[[Category:Shipbuilding companies of India]]
[[Category:Government-owned companies of India]]
[[Category:Companies based in Visakhapatnam]]
[[Category:Companies nationalised by the Government of India]]
[[Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1941]]
[[Category:Economy of Visakhapatnam]]
[[Category:Walchand Group]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1941]]

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