BNS Karatoa

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

HMS Alderney (P278)

BNS Karatoa
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 984[1]
Laid down: 11 June 1978
Launched: 27 February 1979
Commissioned: Royal Navy 6 October 1979
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 913

BNS Karatoa is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy, built as the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel, HMS Alderney (P278).

History

The Island Class offshore patrol vessels, built by Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen, were modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974). HMS Alderney (P278) was launched on 27 February 1979.[1][2]

On 4 July 1981, HMS Alderney apprehended a French trawler. Alderney’s boarding party was threatened with knives and acetylene torches. The trawler headed of France, colliding with another French fishing boat, tried to ram Alderney, and eventually hit the warship, sustaining more damage to itself than the British warship. Giving up, the trawler was towed into Grimsby, where she received a £6,796 fine plus £2,000 for the damage.[3]

HMS Alderney was the affiliated ship for the King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) Naval Combined Cadet Force during the 1980s

In 1998, Alderney rescued the crew of a yacht 25 miles (40 km) west of Lundy.[3]

Once decommissioned by the Royal Navy, Alderney 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 Karatoa.[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 Karatoa is currently under the command of the Commodore Commanding Khulna (COMKHUL). About 100 personnel serve at Karatoa, which is categorized as Large Offshore Patrol Vessel in the Bangladesh Navy.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Alderney". 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 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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 Bangladesh Navy
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