Events of 2016
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Founded in 1993 by a group of Indian Navy and Merchant Navy Veterans, with the primary aim of promoting awareness of the oceans amongst the people, the IMF turned 23 this month. It has been a long and ardous journey, and most of the founder members still pull together, albeit that the average age of…
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Our Council Member Cdr Mukund Yeolekar suggested that a visitb to CME and especially to the newly laid out Rowing Track and Training Facility could be an interesting way of spending an afternoon, and volunteered to organize it. So instead of the regular weekly meeting on Friday, the 23rd of December, we decided to take…
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It is a little known fact that 7955 Indian Seaman lost their lives while sailing on board British Merchant Ships during the two World Wars. Their names are engraved along with the names of the ships they served on at the Memorial Gardens in London. There is no such record in India. The Indian Maritime…
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The IMF Annual Seminar was conducted at the Central Park Hotel, Pune on the 10th of December 2016. Inaugural Session Vice Admiral HCS Bisht AVSM, ADC, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief Eastern Naval Command, was the Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker. Cmde Rajan Vir (Retd), President IMF welcomed all the delegates and Vice Admiral Vinod…
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Mr Yezdi Batlwala, Council Member of the IMF presented a Model of MV El Madina to the IMF Maritime Museum Pune on the 10th of September. El Madina was carrying troops to Burma during the later part of the Second World War, when she was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese Submarine. Large number of…
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MANET hosted the Indian Maritime Foundation on the 2nd of August 2016. Prof. Nilambari Jadhav and Capt. Vilas Pimpalkhare made presentations on “Global Warming – Challenges to the Maritime Industry”. IMF was represented by Commodore Rajan Vir, President and founder of IMF, Commander Sati Taneja, Vice President IMF and Chairman of the Awards Committee and…
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The last lecture in the Maritime Security Trilogy was delivered by Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan AVSM & Bar, VSM, on the 7th of June 2016 at the Boat Club. Interest levels having been raised during the first two lectures, we had a full house for this one, with serving Naval Officers from Mumbai, Lonavala and…
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Introduction The fourth in a series of cooperative seminars which began in 2012 at the behest of the Navy, the IMF and the Nautical Institute London, was held at the INHS Aswini Auditorium on 05 May 16. It was indeed heartening to see members of the maritime fraternity mingle and discuss various issues and present…
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Mr Philip Wake, Chief Executive of the Nautical Institute ( NI), London was in India to attend our annual joint seminar in Mumbai and he paid a brief visit to IMF at Pune. To welcome him the council members hosted cocktails and dinner at Hotel Panchratna on 2nd May. There was much to celebrate that…
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A lecture on Maritime Security (the second in a series of three) was delivered by Vice Adm P Chauhan (Retd), at the Royal Connaught Boat Club on 19 Apr 2016 The lecture had an overwhelming response, and extra seating arrangements were required at the last minute.. Cmde Rajan Vir, President IMF delivered the welcome address,…
