BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin (1994)

For other ships with the same name, see BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin and HMS Jersey.

Sister ship Sangu in September 2012
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Jersey
Namesake	Jersey, Channel Islands
Builder	Hall, Russell & Company
Yard number	971
Laid down	1975
Launched	18 March 1976
Sponsored by	Anne, Princess Royal
Commissioned	January 1977
Decommissioned	1993
Identification	Pennant number: P295
Fate	Sold to Bangladesh, 1993
Bangladesh
Name	BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin
Acquired	December 1993
Commissioned	29 January 1994
Homeport	Chittagong
Identification	Pennant number: A511
Nickname(s)	BNS SR
Status	In service
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass2-
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 (4,210 kW) sustained; 1 × shaft; cp prop
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Range	7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
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 × Bofors 40 mm/60 Mk 3 2 × FN 7.62 mm machine guns Countermeasures ESM: Orange Crop; intercept

BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin is an Template:Sclass2- offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy being used as a training ship. She was built and served as a Royal Navy Island-class patrol vessel HMS Jersey (P295) from 1977 to 1993.

History

HMS Jersey was built at Aberdeen, being launched in 1976 by Princess Anne and subsequently commissioned into the Royal Navy later that year. She was the first ship of the class to be commissioned; six more followed her.

As part of the Fishery Protection Squadron, along with her sister ships, Jersey patrolled the waters around the UK (sometimes also Gibraltar) providing protection for Britain's fishing grounds, as well as providing oil and gas platform protection. In 1993 she became involved in the Cherbourg incident, when Jersey captured the French trawler La Calypso in the Channel Islands waters on 2 April 1993.

She was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Bangladesh in 1993, entering its navy as the training ship BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin, being accompanied by all but one of its sister ships. All of the Island class were decommissioned by January 2004, being replaced by the modern Template:Sclass2-s.

Career in Bangladesh

BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin was commissioned to the Bangladesh Navy on 29 January 1994. She is currently based at Chittagong. She is serving as a training ship for new sailors and officers of Bangladesh Navy.

See also

• List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy