English: Six women officers of the Indian Navy, who are due to circumnavigate the globe on Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Tarini, called on the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 16 August 2017. This is the first-ever circumnavigation of the globe by an Indian all-women crew, who are scheduled to begin their voyage later this month from Goa, and are expected to return in March 2018.

During the interaction, the crew explained details of their upcoming voyage to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister wished the women crew well, and exhorted them to project India’s capabilities and strengths across the world. He also encouraged them to write and share their experiences, after successful completion of the voyage. INSV Tarini is a 55-foot sailing vessel, which has been built indigenously, and was inducted in the Indian Navy earlier this year.

The vessel will be skippered by Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, and crewed by Lieutenant Commanders Pratibha Jamwal and P Swathi, and Lieutenants S Vijaya Devi, B Aishwarya and Payal Gupta. The expedition has been titled Navika Sagar Parikrama and will be undertaken in five legs, with stop-overs at 4 ports namely Fremantle (Australia), Lyttleton (New Zealand), Port Stanley (Falklands), and Cape Town (South Africa).