List of historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy

This article is about the historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy. For active ships, see List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy.

This is a list of all historic ships of the Bangladesh Navy that are decommissioned or damaged from 1971.

Bangladesh vessels use the prefix "BNS", standing for "Bangladesh Navy Ship".

Frigates

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Salisbury-class frigate

Patrol Frigate BNS Umar Farooq (F16)
2 408
ex-HMS Llandaff (F61). The ship participated in the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-370 in the Bay of Bengal in March 2014. Decommissioned on 30 December 2015. Now being used as museum ship.[1]
Type 41 Leopard class Frigate BNS Abu Bakar
BNS Ali Haider
2,520 Ex-HMS Lynx and Ex-HMS Jaguar. Decommissioned on 22 January 2014. To be replaced with two Type 053H2 Jianghu-III Class Guided Missile Frigates, Huangshi and Wuhu[2]

Large patrol crafts

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Bishkhali Class LPC BNS Bishkhali 143 Ex-PNS Jessore. Decommissioned on 20 May 2014.[3]

Offshore patrol vessels

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Ajay Class OPV BNS Padma
BNS Surma
150 Ex-INS Aksay and Ex-INS Ajay, gifted by Indian Navy in 1973 and 1974.[4]

Fast attack crafts

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Gun
Shanghai II Fast Attack Craft (Gun) BNS Tawfique (P 611)
BNS Tawheed (P 612)
BNS Tamjeed (P 613)
BNS Tanveer (P 614)
135
Transferred to Bangladesh Coast Guard.
ASW
Type 037 class submarine chaser ASW BNS Durjoy 392 Damaged beyond repair in 1995.
Torpedo
Type 025 class torpedo boat Torpedo Boat BNS TB 35
BNS TB 36
BNS TB 37
BNS TB 38
45 Standard: 2 x 533 mm torpedo tubes and 4 x 14.5 mm heavy machine guns (2x2), 2 mines and additional machine guns. Decommissioned on 18 June 2015.[5]

Revirine Patrol Boats

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Pabna Class Riverine Patrol Craft BNS Pabna (P 111)
BNS Noakhali (P 112)
BNS Patuakhali (P 113)
BNS Rangamati (P 114)
BNS Bogra (P 115)
BNS Atrai (P 116)
69 Transferred to Bangladesh Coast Guard in 1995.

Auxiliaries

Class Picture Type Ships Displacement (Tons) Note
Oil Tanker Fleet Tanker BNS Khan Jahan Ali 665 Ex-Soho Maru (T1056) by Naikai Shipbuilding Setoda in Onomichi , Japan 1963.[6] Sold after 1983 and commissioned on 14 July 1987 as naval tanker. Decommissioned after 28 years on 05 Sept 2015.

See also

References


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