List of historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy

This is a list of all historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy that are decommissioned or damaged from 1971.

Bangladesh vessels use the prefix "BNS", standing for "Bangladesh Navy Ship".

Frigates

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Salisbury-class frigate

FrigateBNS Umar Farooq2,408ex-HMS Llandaff (F61). The ship participated in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-370 in the Bay of Bengal in March 2014. Decommissioned on 30 December 2015. After brief use as museum ship from December 2015,[1] she was sold for demolition in Bangladesh in 2016.[2]
Type 41 Leopard classFrigateBNS Abu Bakar
BNS Ali Haider		2,520Ex-HMS Lynx and Ex-HMS Jaguar. Decommissioned on 22 January 2014. To be replaced with two Type 053H2 Jianghu-III Class Guided Missile Frigates, Huangshi and Wuhu[3]

Large patrol craft

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Bishkhali ClassLPCBNS Bishkhali143Ex-PNS Jessore. Decommissioned on 20 May 2014.[4]

Offshore patrol vessels

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
OPVBNS Shaheed Ruhul AminAn ex-Canadian coastal passenger-cargo vessel named Anticosti, converted to be used as an offshore patrol vessel. First sea going vessel of the Bangladesh navy. She was also the first flagship of the Bangladesh navy.
Ajay ClassOPVBNS Padma
BNS Surma		150Ex-INS Aksay and Ex-INS Ajay, gifted by Indian Navy in 1973 and 1974.[5]

Fast attack craft

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Missile
Type 024 missile boatMissile boatBNS Durbar (P8111)
BNS Duranta (P8112)
BNS Durvedya (P8113)
BNS Durdam (P8114)
BNS Uttal (P8141)
79
Decommissioned on 30 March 2017.
Gun
Type 062 class gunboatFast Attack Craft (Gun)BNS Tawfique (P 611)
BNS Tawheed (P 612)
BNS Tamjeed (P 613)
BNS Tanveer (P 614)
BNS Shaheed Daulat (P411)
BNS Shaheed Farid (P412)
BNS Shahhed Mohibullah (P413)
BNS Shaheed Akhtaruddin (P414)		135Four transferred to Bangladesh Coast Guard.
ASW
Type 037 class submarine chaserASWBNS Durjoy392Damaged beyond repair in 1995.
Torpedo
Type 025 class torpedo boatTorpedo BoatBNS TB 35
BNS TB 36
BNS TB 37
BNS TB 38
45Standard: 2 x 533 mm torpedo tubes and 4 x 14.5 mm heavy machine guns (2x2), 2 mines and additional machine guns. Decommissioned on 18 June 2015.[6]

Revirine Patrol Boats

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Pabna ClassRiverine Patrol CraftBNS Pabna (P 111)
BNS Noakhali (P 112)
BNS Patuakhali (P 113)
BNS Rangamati (P 114)
BNS Bogra (P 115)		69Transferred to Bangladesh Coast Guard in 1995.

Auxiliaries

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Oil TankerFleet TankerBNS Khan Jahan Ali665Ex-Soho Maru (T1056) by Naikai Shipbuilding Setoda in Onomichi, Japan 1963.[7] Sold after 1983 and commissioned on 14 July 1987 as naval tanker. Decommissioned after 28 years on 05 Sept 2015.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BNS Umar Farooq inaugurated as museum ship". BNS Umar Farooq inaugurated as museum ship | daily-sun.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Auction of Bangladesh Navy ship ex-BNS Umar Farooq" (PDF). Dakha: Ministry of Defence. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "BNS Abu Bakar, BNS Ali Haider de-commissioned - Dhaka Tribune". Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Photo: The decommissioning ceremony of BNS Bishkhali - LAST PAGE - Financial Express :: Financial Newspaper of Bangladesh". Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Indian Navy's Inshore Patrol Vessels" (PDF). Orbat.info. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Bangladesh decommissions Type 25 torpedo boats". IHS Jane's 360. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  7. ↑ http://maritime-connector.com/ship/khan-jahan-ali-5413549


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