BNS Gomati

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Career (Bangladesh)
Class and type: Island Class Large Patrol Vessel
Name:

HMS Anglesey (P277)

BNS Gomati
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 983[1]
Laid down: 6 February 1978
Launched: 18 October 1978
Commissioned: Royal Navy 1 June 1979
Recommissioned: Bangladesh Navy 3 October 2004
Status: In service
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,260 tons (full load)
Length: 59.5 meter
Beam: 11 meter
Draught: 4.5 meter
Propulsion: 2 x Ruston 12RKC diesels; 5,640 hp (4.21 MW) sustained; 1 x shaft; cp prop
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Range: 7,000 nmi at 12 knots
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 x Bofors 40 mm/60 Mk 3; 2 x FN 7.62 mm MGs
  • Countermeasures
    • ESM: Orange Crop; intercept
Notes: Pennant number: P 914

BNS Gomati is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy. She was built as Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel, HMS Anglesey (P277).

History

Launched on 18 October 1978,[2] HMS Anglesey (P277) was delivered to the Royal Navy in 1979.[1]

Anglesey was one of the first rescue vessels on the scene of the disastrous Fastnet Race of August 1979. She picked up seven survivors from the race,[3] in which 15 died.

Paid off on 31 July 2003, Anglesey was sold to the Bangladesh Navy on 28 August 2003 and renamed Gomati on 9 September 2003. Four other ships of the same class were added to Bangladesh Navy's fleet in 2003/04 to protect the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Bay of Bengal.[4]

Career

The island class patrol boats were built to enforce a 200-mile (320 km) fishing zone around the UK.[3]

The Gomati is currently under the command of the Commodore Commanding Khulna (COMKHUL). About 100 personnel serve at Gomati, which is categorized as Large Offshore Patrol Vessel in the Bangladesh Navy.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "HMS Anglesey". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 20 February 2010. 
  2. ↑ Jeremy Olver. "Island Class Offshore Patrol Vessels". Royal Navy Postwar. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Farewell to the Island Class". Navy News. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 21 February 2010. 
  4. ↑ http://www.bdmilitary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236&Itemid=118


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