BNS Somudra Avijan
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 Bangladesh
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| Name: | Somudra Avijan |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Launched: | 16 November 1968 |
| Acquired: | 5 May 2015 |
| Commissioned: | 19 March 2016 |
| Homeport: | Chittagong |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F29 |
| Nickname(s): | BNS SA |
| Status: | In Active Service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hamilton-class cutter (Modified) |
| Displacement: | 3250 tones |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Range: | 16,000 nautical miles (30,000 km; 18,000 mi) |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Complement: | 178 personnel (21 officers and 157 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-40 air-search radar, MK 92 FCS |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Hangar |
BNS Somudra Avijan is one of the largest and the heaviest frigates of the Bangladesh Navy. The Bangladesh Navy acquired the ship from the United States under Excess Defense Articles.
From 1969 to 2015 the ship was known as USCGC Rush and served the US Coast Guard as a high endurance cutter. She was decommissioned on 3 February 2015 and was acquired by the Bangladesh under the Foreign Assistance Act as a Excess Defense Article. She was officially handed over to the Bangladesh Navy on 5 May 2015.
BNS Somudra Avijan visited the port of Manila, Philippines from 13 to 16 November 2015 on her way to Bangladesh from United States. She also visited Malaysia on her way. The ship arrived at Chittagong, Bangladesh on 28 November 2015. On 19 March 2016, she was commissioned to Bangladesh Navy.
The ship took part in 15th Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS), 2nd Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK), a multinational naval exercise arranged by Indonesian Navy for ASEAN and ASEAN+ nations and International Fleet Review-2016 held at Padang, Indonesia. On her way back, she visited the Port Klang of Malaysia on goodwill visit.
Somudra Avijan, with her sister ship Somudra Joy left Chittagong for India and Sri Lanka on a goodwill visit on 18 September 2016. The ships were at Port Blair, India from 21 to 25 September and at Colombo port, Sri Lanka from 29 September to 4 October. They returned Chittagong on 9 October, 2016.
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