BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin (1994)

Sister ship Sangu in September 2012
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Jersey
Namesake: Jersey, Channel Islands
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company
Yard number: 971[1]
Laid down: 1975
Launched: 18 March 1976
Sponsored by: Anne, Princess Royal
Commissioned: January 1977
Decommissioned: 1993
Identification: Pennant number: P295
Fate: Sold to Bangladesh, 1993
Bangladesh
Name: BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin
Acquired: December 1993
Commissioned: 29 January 1994
Homeport: Chittagong
Identification: Pennant number: A511
Nickname(s): BNS SR
Status: In service
General characteristics
Class and type: Island-class patrol vessel
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 (4,210 kW) 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 × FN 7.62 mm machine guns
  • Countermeasures
    • ESM: Orange Crop; intercept

BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin is an Island-class offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy being used as a training ship. She was built and served as a Royal Navy Island-class patrol vessel HMS Jersey (P295) from 1977 to 1993.

History

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

As part of the Fishery Protection Squadron, along with her sister ships, Jersey patrolled the waters around the UK (sometimes also Gibraltar) providing protection for Britain's fishing grounds, as well as providing oil and gas platform protection. In 1993 she became involved in the Cherbourg incident, when Jersey captured the French trawler La Calypso in the Channel Islands waters on 2 April 1993.

She was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Bangladesh in 1993, entering its navy as the training ship BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin, being accompanied by all but one of its sister ships. All of the Island class were decommissioned by January 2004, being replaced by the modern River-class patrol vessels.

Career in Bangladesh

BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin was commissioned to the Bangladesh Navy on 29 January 1994. She is currently based at Chittagong. She is serving as a training ship for new sailors and officers of Bangladesh Navy.

See also

References

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