Naval Dockyard Mumbai (Bombay Dockyard)

Naval Dockyard, Mumbai (ND Mbi), formerly the Bombay Dockyard, is the Indian Navy's shipbuilding and ship repair yard at Mumbai, on the west coast of India. It is the Navy's principal repair yard. The yard is commanded by an Admiral Superintendent, a naval officer of rear admiral rank, and employs some 10,000 personnel, the majority of them civilians.

Repair and refit work is carried out in dry docks of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origin that remain in service. Bombay Dock, completed in 1750, was built with three divisions and three sets of gates, allowing ships to be docked and undocked independently of work proceeding on hulls further in. Duncan Dock, built between 1807 and 1810, was at the time of construction the largest dry dock outside Europe. The main Dockyard building, fronting Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, and the administration block both date from 1807.

The yard was established in 1735 by the East India Company, which brought shipwrights from Surat to build vessels in Malabar teak. Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia and successive generations of his family served as Master Builders, and between 1736 and 1821 the yard produced 159 ships of over 100 tons, including 15 of more than 1,000 tons, a number of which passed to the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy assumed control of the yard in 1811, retaining the Wadia family as Master Shipwrights, and the dock and building works of that period established the layout of the present installation.