The Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne called on newly appointed Secretary of Defence Mr. Karunasena Hettiarachchi to pay his courtesy at the Ministry of Defence on 09th September 2015.

The finals of the rigging competition 2015 organized by the FOCNF organization for the ships and craft in the Eastern Naval Area was held at the gymnasium of the Naval and Maritime Academy in Trincomalee on 8th September 2015.

A delegation of the Indian Coast Guard headed by the Commander Coast Guard Region (East) of the Indian Coast Guard, Inspector General Satya Prakash Sharma paid a courtesy call on the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy at the Naval Headquarters in Colombo on 08th September 2015.

The Sri Lanka Navy granted one million rupees as death compensation to the farther of the late Electrical Mate RMNCK Rathnayake, who had died under tragic circumstances.

After assumption of duties as the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne made his first official visit to the Eastern Naval Command, which has its headquarters in Trincomalee, from 04th to 06th September 2015.

The Commander South Eastern Naval Area, Rear Admiral Jayantha De Silva declared open the newly- constructed junior sailors’ holiday bungalow and the basketball court at SLNS Mahanaga in Panama.

At the invitation extended by the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, a former Commander of the Navy, Admiral Jayanath Colombage delivered a lecture at the Somatilake Dissanayake Auditorium of SLNS Parakrama in Colombo on 03rd September 2015 on the topic of “Non-state Actors and Hybrid Warfare”.

A 23-member delegation from the National Defence College of Bangladesh on a study tour in Sri Lanka visited the Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters in Colombo on 03rd September 2015.

Rear Admiral Dhiren Vig, who led the Indian delegation for the navy-to-navy staff talks between the Indian and the Sri Lankan Navies, called on the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne at the Naval Headquarters in Colombo on 02nd September 2015 to pay his courtesy.

A joint naval exercise was conducted between the visiting Australian naval ship Melbourne and Sri Lankan Navy ships SLNS Sagara and SLNS Samudura on 02nd September 2015.