PS Constant

PS Constant just prior to her commissioning into the Seychelles Coast Guard
History
India
Name:	INS Tarasa
Builder:	Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
Commissioned:	24 August 2001
Identification:	T63
Fate:	Transferred to Seychelles Coast Guard on 7 November 2014
Seychelles
Name:	PS Constant
Commissioned:	7 November 2014
Status:	In service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Trinkat-class patrol vessel
Displacement:	319 long tons (324 t)
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h)

PS Contant is a Trinkat-class patrol vessel owned and operated by the Seychelles Coast Guard. She was formerly operated by the Indian Navy as INS Tarasa (T63).India, like China and the United Arab Emirates, have helped equip the Seychelles Coast Guard with patrol vessels. India, China, and the UAE helped equip the tiny Seychelles with these patrol vessels due to its strategic location, very near the area off the Horn of Africa that is notorious for pirate attacks.

India's most senior Naval officer, Robin Dhowan, traveled to Seychelles, for the official handover. She was the second vessel India turned over to Seychelles. Tarmugli was re-christened PS Topaz when she was transferred in 2005.