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SHAHEED RUHUL AMIN training / patrol vessel (1957/1974)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
শহীদ রুহুল আমিন [Shaheed Ruhul Amin] (ex-Anticosti) A511   Atlantic SB, Montreal, Canada 1956   3.1957 // 10.12.1974 stricken 1994

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

710

Length, m

47.5

Breadth, m

11.1

Draught, m

3.10

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Caterpillar diesel

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

11.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(10)

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

Sensors

radar

Complement

80

Project history: Transferred from Indian relief Agency in 1972, converted to training ship and commissioned in 1974.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Shaheed Ruhul Amin was sunk in April 1991 during cyclone but later salvaged.

Shaheed Ruhul Amin 1976

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