BNS Somudra Joy

Somudra Joy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 2013
History
Bangladesh
Name: Somudra Joy
Builder: Avondale Shipyards
Laid down: 9 September 1970
Launched: 24 April 1971
Acquired: 23 May 2013
Commissioned: 23 December 2013
Homeport: Chattogram
Identification:
Nickname(s): BNS SJ
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Hamilton-class cutter (Modified)
Displacement: 3,250 tones
Length: 378 ft (115.2 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13.1 m)
Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m) (4.6 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range: 16,000 nmi (30,000 km; 18,000 mi)
Endurance: 45 days
Complement: 178 (21 officers and 157 enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems:		 AN/SPS-40 air-search radar, MK 92 FCS
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × hangar

BNS Somudra Joy[1][note 1] is one of the largest and the heaviest frigates of the Bangladesh Navy. They acquired the ship from the United States under Excess Defense Articles.

History

From 1972 to 2012 the ship was known as USCGC Jarvis and served the United States Coast Guard as a high endurance cutter. She was decommissioned on 30 March 2012 and was acquired by Bangladesh under the Foreign Assistance Act as an Excess Defense Article.[2] A team of US Coast Guard personnel visited Bangladesh in February 2013. The first group of Bangladesh Navy personnel, consisting of 7 officers and 13 sailors, left Bangladesh in February to start training on board Jarvis on 13 March 2013. She was officially handed over to the Bangladesh Navy on 23 May 2013.[3]

Career

BNS Somudra Joy had been used by U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Jarvis before it was sent to Chattogram.

BNS Somudra Joy arrived at her new homeport of Chattogram on 13 December 2013[4] and was commissioned on 23 December 2013.[5] The ship is currently serving with Commanding Commodore BN Flotila (COMBAN).

During her transit to Bangladesh from the United States, she was diverted to the Philippines to distribute emergency aid for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan on behalf of Government of Bangladesh. She arrived there on 29 November 2013.[6]

BNS Somudra Joy was sent to Maldives on 9 December 2014,[7] to aid in the water crisis that took place in capital Malé on 8 December, 2014. She carried 100 tonnes of drinking water and five desalination plants there.[8]

On 23 April 2015, she left for Qatar to join the multinational maritime exercise, Exercise Ferocious Falcon-2015.[9] The ship took part in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training(CARAT), an annual bilateral exercise with United States Navy, in 2015.[10]

Somudra Joy left Chattogram on 30 January 2016 on a seven-day visit to India to join International Fleet Review 2016. The fleet review held in Visakhapatnam, India where 52 countries participated.[11]

Somudra Joy, with sister ship BNS Somudra Avijan left Chattogram for India and Sri Lanka on a goodwill visit on 18 September 2016. The ships were at Port Blair, India from 21 to 25 September and at Colombo port, Sri Lanka from 29 September to 4 October. They returned Chattogram on 9 October 2016.[12]

Somudra Joy participated in ASEAN International Fleet Review 2017 held at Pattaya beach of Thailand on 21 November 2017. She stayed in Thailand from 16 November to 21 November 2017 to participate in the exercise. On the way to Thailand, the ship visited Lumut Port of Malaysia from 8 November to 11 November 2017. The ship also visited Langkawi port of Malaysia on her way back home from 27 November to 30 November 2017.

The ship left Chattogram on a training tour on 1 September 2018. She visited the Visakhapatnam Port of India from 4 September to 8 September 2018[13] and Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka from 12 September to 16 September 2018. She is scheduled to return home on 21 September 2018.[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The name has been widely, but incorrectly, reported as Somudro Joy or other variants

References

  1. ↑ Waters, Conrad, ed. (5 November 2014). Seaforth World Naval Review 2015. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-84832-220-2. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Joint Press Conference of the U.S.-Bangladesh Dialogue on Security Issues". Washington DC: US Department of State. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "US hands over naval ship". bdnews24.com. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
  4. ↑ "BNS Somudra Joy arrives". bdnews24.com. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "4 warships including Somoudra Joy commissioned". bdnews24.com. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Bangladesh sends aid to Philippines". Dhaka Tribune. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bangladesh sends water to aid Maldives' crisis". Daily Star. Dhaka. 7 December 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Bangladesh sends drinking water to Maldives". Dhaka Tribune. 7 December 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Navy ship leaves Ctg for Qatar". The News Today. Dhaka. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "US-Bangla jt exercise begins today". Independentbd.com. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "BNS Somudra Joy leaves Ctg to join int'l fleet review in India". The Daily Sun. 31 January 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "Bangladesh Navy warships leave for India, SL". banglanews24.com. 18 September 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  13. ↑ "Bangladesh naval ship gets warm welcome". The Hans India. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "প্রশিক্ষণ সফরে অংশ নিতে নৌবাহিনী যুদ্ধজাহাজ সমুদ্র জয় এর চট্টগ্রাম ত্যাগ". ISPR. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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