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
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
Decommissioned	16 June 2020
In service	1994–2020
Identification	Pennant number: A511
Nickname(s)	BNS SR
Status	Decommissioned
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	Surface Search and Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006 radar; 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 was an Island-class offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy 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

British service

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 in 1993. All of the Island class were decommissioned by January 2004, being replaced by the modern River-class patrol vessels.

Bangladeshi service

The Bangladeshis purchased the ship as a training craft in 1993. She was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy under the name Shaheed Ruhul Amin,^[2] in honour of naval hero Mohammad Ruhul Amin,^[3] on 29 January 1994. She was based at Chittagong.^{[citation needed]} Ultimately all but one of her sister ships were transferred to Bangladesh as patrol craft.^[2] On 16 June 2020, she was decommissioned from the Bangladesh Navy.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "HMS Jersey". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
^ ^a ^b Saunders, Stephen, ed. (2014). Jane's Fighting Ships 2014-2015. Coulsdon, UK: IHS Jane's. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7106-3101-5.
^ "Bir Shrestha Ruhul Amin's death anniv today". New Age. 10 December 2014.

Bibliography

Richardson, Ian (February 2022). "Island Class Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV)". Marine News Supplement: Warships. 76 (2): S118–S124. ISSN 0966-6958.

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

[janes-2] Saunders, Stephen, ed. (2014). Jane's Fighting Ships 2014-2015. Coulsdon, UK: IHS Jane's. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7106-3101-5.

[3] "Bir Shrestha Ruhul Amin's death anniv today". New Age. 10 December 2014.

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