The author RECENTLY read an article regarding INS Viraat going to Alang, a graveyard for decommissioned ships. He reminisced of the time when he was an engineer with India’s pioneer shipping company, Scindia Steam Navigation, in Bombay, writes the author in his article published in The Tribune.
The story of a shipThe company came into being in 1919 and ruled the seas in cargo trade. It had a fleet of over 60 ships. As a ship aged and became economically unviable, it was either sold to a new...