BNS ''Shaheed Ruhul Amin'' was an
offshore patrol vessel of the
Bangladesh Navy used as a
training ship. She was built and served as a
Royal Navy
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Island-class patrol vessel HMS ''Jersey'' (P295) from 1977 to 1993.
History
British service
was built at
Aberdeen
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, being
launched in 1976 by
Princess Anne
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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 ship
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s, ''Jersey'' patrolled the waters around the UK (sometimes also
Gibraltar
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) 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
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waters on 2 April 1993.
She was
decommissioned in 1993. All of the Island class were decommissioned by January 2004, being replaced by the modern s.
Bangladeshi service
Bangladesh purchased the ship as a training craft in 1993. She was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy under the name ''Shaheed Ruhul Amin'',
in honour of naval hero
Mohammad Ruhul Amin,
on 29 January 1994. She was based at
Chittagong
Chittagong ( ), officially Chattogram, (, ) (, or ) is the second-largest city in Bangladesh. Home to the Port of Chittagong, it is the busiest port in Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. The city is also the business capital of Bangladesh. It ...
. Ultimately, all but one of her sister ships were transferred to Bangladesh as patrol craft.
On 16 June 2020, she was decommissioned from Bangladesh Navy.
See also
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List of historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy
References
Bibliography
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Shaheed Ruhul Amin
Ships of the Fishery Protection Squadron of the United Kingdom
1976 ships
Ships built by Hall, Russell & Company