BNS Sangu

BNS Sangu (P-713)
Career (Bangladesh)
Class and type: Island Class offshore Patrol Vessel
Name: BNS Sangu
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 974
Laid down: 14 May 1976
Launched: 17 February 1977
Acquired: 2004
Commissioned: 3 October 2004
Homeport: Chittagong
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:96
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 713

BNS Sangu is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 2004.

History

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974). She was launched on 17 February 1977.[1] She was commissioned to Royal Navy as HMS Guernsey (P297) on 28 October 1977.[2] On 29 January 2004 she was sold to the Bangladesh Navy.[3]

Career

BNS Sangu reached Mongla Naval Base in May 2004 after an 8,000 mile journey from the UK. The ship made brief stopovers at Tangier port in Morocco, Port Said in Egypt, Jeddah port in Saudi Arabia, Port of Salalah in Oman and Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka as goodwill visits as well as to replenish rations, fuel and provisions.[4] The ship was commissioned on 3 October 2004[5] under the command of the Commodore Commanding Khulna (COMKHUL), but was later commanded by Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN). About 100 personnel serve on board her.

BNS Sangu participated in the CARAT exercise with the US Navy in the Bay of Bengal in September 2011.[6] The ship also participated in CARAT 2012 a year later.

BNS Sangu participated in Exercise Milan, a biennial multilateral exercise at Andaman Islands in India in 2008 and 2014.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Patrol Craft". Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20100325110704/http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Today/island.htm
  3. ↑ "Farewell to the Island Class". Navy News. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  4. ↑ http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/05/06/d40506060574.htm
  5. ↑ http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/10/04/d41004011111.htm
  6. ↑ "US, Bangladesh navies complete at-sea portion of CARAT 2011".
  7. ↑ http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=19480
  8. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Milan-2014-comes-to-a-close-with-passex/articleshow/30115783.cms