USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725)
USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725)
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| Namesake: | Captain David H. Jarvis, U.S. Revenue Cutter Service |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Cost: | US$14,065,811 |
| Laid down: | 9 September 1970 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 4 August 1972 |
| Recommissioned: | December 1992 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 October 2012 |
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| Fate: | Transferred to Bangladesh Navy as BNS Somudra Joy on May 23, 2013 |
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| Class and type: | High endurance cutter |
| Displacement: | 3,300 tons |
| Length: | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft 8 in (13.31 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Range: | 16,000 miles |
| Endurance: | 45 days |
| Complement: | 178 personnel (21 officers and 157 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-40 air-search radar, MK 92 FCS |
| Armament: | Otobreda 76 mm, Phalanx CIWS |
USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) was a Hamilton-class cutter of the United States Coast Guard. She was launched on 24 April 1971 and commissioned on 4 August 1971. She served on Ocean Station November until mid 1973 and was later used in fisheries patrols and search and rescue missions in the Bering Sea. Beginning in 1988 Jarvis was homeported at Honolulu, Hawaii and used for law enforcement and search and rescue. She received a FRAM upgrade in 1990-2. Jarvis was decommissioned on 2 October 2012 and in January 2013 the Coast Guard announced that she would be transferred to the Bangladesh Navy late that year. She was commissioned as BNS Somudra Joy (F-28) on 23 December 2013.
The USCGC Jarvis was named for David H. Jarvis, a hero of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. During the harsh winter of 1897–1898, Lieutenant Jarvis of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear led the Overland Relief Expedition to bring needed food to 265 whalers whose ships had been stranded in the ice off the northern coast of Alaska. The high endurance cutter was launched 24 April 1971 at Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana and was commissioned 4 August 1972 at Honolulu, Hawaii, where she would be based for the rest of her career. She received a $55 million Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization Program (FRAM) upgrade at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington between July 1990 and December 1992. Jarvis completed her final cruise in late September 2012, and was removed from active service the following week.
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