BNS Turag

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

HMS Lindisfarne (P300)

BNS TURAG
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 975[1]
Launched: 1 June 1977
Commissioned: Royal Navy 3 March 1978[2]
Recommissioned: Bangladesh Navy 3 October 2004
Homeport: Naval Base MONGLA, Khulna
Status: In service
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,260 tons (full load)
Length: 59.5 meter
Beam: 11 meter
Draught: 5.3 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 714

BNS TURAG is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy. She was built as Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel, HMS Lindisfarne (P300).

History

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974). She was launched as HMS Lindisfarne (P300) on 1 June 1977.[1]

She and HMS Guernsey were the last of their class to be sold to the Bangladesh Navy, on 29 January 2004,[3] to protect the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Bay of Bengal.[4]

Career

The class of patrol boats was built to enforce a 200-mile (320 km) fishing zone around the UK, netting hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines.[3] During patrols, they were also available for search and rescue. Lindisfarne assisted after the Norwegian Aleksander Kielland oil rig capsized.[3]

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Lindisfarne". 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


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