BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin

History
Bangladesh
Class and type: Island Class Large Patrol Vessel
Name: BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 971[1]
Laid down: 6 February 1978
Launched: 18 March 1976
Acquired: December 1993
Commissioned: Royal Navy 1976
Recommissioned: Bangladesh Navy 29 January 1994
Homeport: Chittagong
Identification: Pennat Number: A 511
Nickname(s): BNS SR
Status: In service
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,260 tons (full load)
Length: 59.5 m (195 ft)
Beam: 11 m (36 ft)
Draught: 4.5 m (15 ft)
Propulsion: 2 × Ruston 12RKC diesels; 5,640 hp (4.21 MW) sustained; 1 × shaft; cp prop
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Range: 7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 39
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006; I-band
  • Combat Data Systems: Racal CANE DEA-1 action data automation
Armament:
  • Guns:
    • 1 × Bofors 40 mm/60 Mk 3; 2 x FN 7.62 mm MGs
  • Countermeasures
    • ESM: Orange Crop; intercept

BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy being used as a training ship. She was built as Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel, HMS Jersey (P295).

History

HMS Jersey (P295) was built at Aberdeen, being launched in 1976 by HRH Princess Anne and subsequently commissioned into the Navy later that year. She was the first ship of the class to be commissioned; six more followed her.

She was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Bangladesh Navy in 1994, entering its navy as the training ship Shaheed Ruhul Amin. BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin replaced another ship of the same name and pennant number. The earlier ship was a former Canadian coastal passenger-cargo vessel Anticosti.

Career

BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin is currently based at Chittagong. She is serving as a training ship of new sailors and officers of Bangladesh Navy from 1994.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "HMS Jersey". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
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