BNS Kapatakhaya
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 Bangladesh | |
| Name | list error: <br /> list (help) HMS Alderney BNS Kapatakhaya |
| Builder | Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen |
| Yard number | 984 |
| Launched | 27 February 1979 |
| Commissioned | Royal Navy |
| 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 |
| Range | 7,000 n miles at 12 kts |
| Complement | 39 |
| Sensors and processing systems | list error: mixed text and list (help)
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| Armament | list error: mixed text and list (help)
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| Notes | Pennant number: P 912 |
BNS Kapatakhaya is a Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladeshi Navy. The Ex-RN vessel was added to Bangladesh Navy's fleet in 2003 along with 4 other ships of the same class to protect the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Bay of Bengal.[1]
History
The vessel was built in 1979 by Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen. Modelled on the ocean-going trawlers, FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974), she was launched on 27 February 1979 and commissioned as HMS Alderney (P278).[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]
In 1998, Alderney rescued the crew of a yacht 25 miles west of Lundy.[3]
Alderney was sold to Bangladesh in 2002, and renamed BNS Kapatakhaya (P278).[2]
Career
The island class patrol boats were built to enforce a 200-mile fishing zone around the UK, netting hundreds of thousands of pounds in fines.[3]
The Kapatakhaya is currently under the command of the Commodore Commanding Khulna (COMKHUL). About 100 personnel serve at Kapatakhaya, which is categorized as Large Offshore Patrol Vessel by Bangladesh Navy.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.bdmilitary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236&Itemid=118
- ^ a b "Alderney". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
- ^ a b c "Farewell to the Island Class". Navy News. 29 January 2004. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
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