On December 8, 1967, India joined other nations of the world that had a submarine arm in their naval defences. Commodore K.S. Subra-Manian, then a Commander, read out the commissioning warrant of INS Kalvari (S23), India’s first submarine, at Riga in Latvia in the erstwhile U.S.S.R., and the rest is history.
Aged 94, Cmde Subra-Manian died on June 5, and was laid to rest in Coimbatore on Friday, June 9, 2023.
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