BNS Kapatakhaya

Career (Bangladesh)
Class and type: Island Class Large Patrol Vessel
Name: BNS Kapatakhaya
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 973
Launched: 22 October 1976
Acquired: 31 October 2002
Commissioned: 4 May 2003
Homeport: Khulna
Status: In active service
General characteristics
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 (4.21 MW) sustained; 1 × 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. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 2003.

History

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974). The vessel was laid down in 1975 and launched on 22 October 1976.[1] She was commissioned to Royal Navy as HMS Shetland (P298) on 14 July 1977. In 2002 she was sold to the Bangladesh Navy.

Career

Bangladesh Navy acquired the ship on 31 October 2002.[2] On 4 May 2003, BNS Kapatakhaya was commissioned to Bangladesh Navy. She is currently serving under the command of the Commodore Commanding BN Khulna (COMKHUL).

BNS Kapatakhaya took part in Exercise Shomudro Torongo, a joint bilateral exercise with Royal Navy at Ganges delta region in Bangladesh from April 29 to March 3, 2009.[3]

BNS Kapatakhaya participated in Exercise Milan, a biennial multilateral exercise at Andaman Islands in India in February 2010.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jeremy Olver. "Island Class Offshore Patrol Vessels". Royal Navy Postwar. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.bdmilitary.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=236&Itemid=118
  3. ↑ http://www.marinebuzz.com/2009/05/21/shomudro-torongo-in-the-ganges-delta-by-royal-navy-and-bangladesh-navy/
  4. ↑ http://www.marinebuzz.com/2010/02/06/indian-navy-hosts-milan-2010/