That is a lie. There was no Admiral in Goa. CMG (Capitão-de-Mar-e-Guerra) is a couple of positions below Admiral.
CMG António da Cunha Aragão was badly wounded and rushed to Hospital Escolar in Panjim (the Goa Medical College hospital as it was known then, now the IFFI place), and the telegraphist Rosario da Piedade was killed. It was a battle between INS Betwa (INS Trishul and INS Mysore were in attendance, but did not join in, according to Bharat Rakshak) with a firing capacity of 60 rounds a minute (and better aiming capabilities) against an older battleship with a firing capaicty of 2 rounds a minute, which found itself in an unfortunate position of having little room to manoeuvre. The battle, according to Revista da Armada, commenced at aorund 12:00 noon. The bridge suffered a direct hit at around 12:35pm causing the main casualties mentioned above, and the ship was prematurely scuttled due to lack of communications between the bridge and the engine-room at around 12:50pm. So yes, there was a battle in Mormugão. According to the Revista Armada, the "Afonso de Albuquerque" managed to fire about 400 rounds causing 5 deaths and 13 injured to the Indian Navy. I read somewhere that the local fishermen came to the aid of the sailors and officers, the majority of whom swam across to the Bambolim beach, from where CMG Aragão was then taken to the Hospital Escolar by road. Gabriel. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, 1 February, 2011 8:58:35 PM > Subject: [Goanet] Defence sites indicate Dabolim as ‘war booty’ > > Interestingly, the article also has a paragraph which states: 'The greatest > beneficiary in the liberation of Goa was the Indian > Navy<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Indian%20Navy>. > They didn't fire a single shot. The Portuguese admiral surrendered with all > his ships in the port, including the > Albuquerque<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Albuquerque>, > the flag ship of the Portuguese navy..."
