Name BNS Gomati Laid down 6 February 1978 Commissioned 3 October 2004 Construction started 6 February 1978 Length 60 m Draft 4.5 m | Yard number 983 Acquired July, 2003 Homeport Khulna Launched 18 October 1978 Displacement 1.143 million kg Builder Hall, Russell & Company | |
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BNS Gomati is an Island-class offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy. She entered service in 2003.
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History
Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974). The vessel was laid down on 6 February 1978 and launched on 18 October 1978. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Anglesey (P277) on 1 June 1979. In 2002 she was sold to the Bangladesh Navy.
Career
The Bangladesh Navy acquired the ship on 29 July 2002. On 4 May 2003, BNS Gomati was commissioned into the Bangladesh Navy. She is currently serving under the command of the Commodore Commanding BN Khulna (COMKHUL).
Gomati took part in Exercise Aman in 2013, a multinational exercise held at Karachi port of Pakistan. She visited the port of Colombo, Sri Lanka from 23 to 26 February and Visakhapatnam Port in India from 17 to 20 March 2013 on goodwill missions.