Indian seafarers that inspire me ;By:- DHEERAJ VERMA (22599) BLOG 1
Indian seafarers that inspire me
- Bom in September's. 1942, Capt. H. Subramaniam was educated in the Lawrence School, Lovedale, one of the best schools in India.
- He passed out of the T.S. Dufferin in 1960 winning several prizes including "Runner-up for the President's Gold Medal.
- He then served at sea until August 1968 when he took to teaching at the L.B.S. Nautical & Eng. College, Bombay, In December 1990, he took over charge as the Principal of the same college.
- In November 1991, he was transferred to command the T.S. Rajendra which conducted three-year B.Sc. (Nautical Sciences) degree courses under Bombay University, for pre-sea cadets.
- In July 1992, he did a stint of four months in command of a bulk carrier from India to Japan, Australia and back to prove to himself that he 'Practices what he teaches'. In Aug 1993, he was in charge of the transfer of training from T.S. Rajendra to a new shore based nautical academy called T.S. Chanakya.
- Having established T.S. Chanakya, he again took over charge as the Principal of the LBS College, in May 1995, by then renamed L.B.S. College of Advanced Maritime Studies & Research'.
- He has thus been associated with all the four great nautical training institutions in Indian history he was a cadet on T.S. Dufferin, the last Captain Superintendent of T.S. Rajendra, the first Captain Superintendent of T.S. Chanakya and Principal of L.B.S. College.
- He retired from Govt service on 30th September 2002 after 34 glorious years including 12 years as head of man time training institutions. He then sailed in command again for six months to satisfy himself that he was also a practicing Master, not merely a teaching Master! He is now a nautical consultant in Mumbai.
- List of books author by Capt. H. Subramaniam are-
- Shipborne RADAR and ARPA Nutshell series book 3 ,
- Ship Stability at the Management level Nutshell series book 6 ,
- Practical navigation nutshell series book 1 ,
- Ship stability at operational level nutshell series book 4,
- Marine meteorology nutshell series book 2 ,
- Nautical watchkeeping nutshell series book 7 ,
- Ship weather code 2005 book 2 ,
- Spherical trigonometry book 8, and
- Bridge equipment and charts and publications nutshell series book 5.
- After knowing about all this captain H. Subramanyam, I likely to get inspire as a seafarer while pursuing in the MANET and about also the list the books which I presented in the blog . He is always an inspire to and other captains too.
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