Name HMS Jersey Commissioned 1976 Launched 18 March 1976 | Yard number 971 Decommissioned 1994 Builder Hall, Russell & Company | |
Namesake Jersey, Channel Islands Sponsored by HRH Anne, Princess Royal | ||
HMS Jersey was an Island-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the island of Jersey, part of the Channel Islands.
She was built at Aberdeen, being launched in 1976 by HRH Princess Anne and subsequently commissioned into the Navy later that year. She was the first ship of the class to be commissioned; six more would follow her.
As part of the Fishery Protection Squadron, along with her sister-ships, Jersey patrolled the waters around the UK (sometimes also Gibraltar) 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 waters on 2 April 1993.
Decommissioning
She was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Bangladesh in 1994, entering its navy as the training ship BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin, being accompanied by all but one of its sister-ships. All of the Island class were decommissioned by January 2004, being replaced by the much more modern River-class patrol vessels.