HMS Jersey (P295)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Jersey
Namesake:	Jersey, Channel Islands
Builder:	Hall, Russell & Company
Yard number:	971[1]
Launched:	18 March 1976
Sponsored by:	HRH Anne, Princess Royal
Commissioned:	1976
Decommissioned:	1994
Fate:	Sold to Bangladesh, 1994
Notes:	Pennant = P295
Bangladesh
Name:	BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin
Namesake:	Mohammad Ruhul Amin
Notes:	Pennant = A511
General characteristics
Class and type:	Island class patrol vessel
Displacement:	1,250 long tons (1,270 t) standard
Length:	195 ft (59 m) o/a
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draft:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 1 diesel, 4,380 hp (3,266 kW)
Speed:	16 knots (30 km/h)
Range:	11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h)
Complement:	35
Armament:	1 × Bofors 40 mm gun Mark III

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.

References

1. "HMS Jersey". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 20 February 2010.