BNS Kapatakhaya

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

HMS Shetland (P298)

BNS Kapatakhaya
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 973[1]
Launched: 22 October 1976
Commissioned: Royal Navy 14 July 1977
Recommissioned: Bangladesh Navy 4 May 2003
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 n miles 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 912

BNS Kapatakhaya is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy, built as the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel, HMS Shetland (P298).

History

The vessel was laid down in 1975 by Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen. Modelled on the ocean-going trawlers, FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974), HMS Shetland was launched on 22 October 1976.[2]

Shetland became a temporary Royal Yacht when Prince Charles' helicopter was grounded by fog during a royal visit to the Isles of Scilly, transporting him to Penzance.[3]

In 1992, Shetland seized cocaine with a street value of £30 million from a British-registered oil rig support vessel, 170 miles (270 km) east of Newcastle. In 1978, Shetland saved the trawler Random Harvest, on fire in the North Sea.[3]

Once decommissioned by the Royal Navy, Shetland was sold to Bangladesh's Navy in 2003/04, along with 4 other ships of the same class to protect the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Bay of Bengal.[4] She was renamed BNS Kapatakhaya.[5]

Career

The island class patrol boats were built to enforce a 200-mile (320 km) fishing zone around the UK, netting hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines.[3]

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Shetland". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 21 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 3.2 "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
  5. ↑ "Annual Report 2002-2003" (PDF). Disposal Services Agency. Retrieved 21 February 2010. 


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