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RAJSHAHI large patrol craft (1965)


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Rajshahi 1973

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
راجشاہی [Rajshahi] P140   Brooke Marine, Lowestoft, UK     8.1965 in service (2019)
جسسورے [Jessore] P141   Brooke Marine, Lowestoft, UK     5.1965 sunk 4.12.1971
کومیللہ [Comilla] P142   Brooke Marine, Lowestoft, UK     5.1965 sunk 4.12.1971
سیلھیت [Sylhet] P143   Brooke Marine, Lowestoft, UK     8.1965 sunk 4.12.1971


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

115

Displacement full, t143
Length, m32.6 oa 30.5 pp
Breadth, m6.10
Draught, m1.55
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MTU 12V538 diesels

Power, h. p.

3400

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9

Electronic equipmentradar
Complement

19



Standard scale images


<i>Rajshahi </i>1965
Rajshahi 1965


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<i>Rajshahi </i> 1973
Rajshahi 1973
<i>Rajshahi </i> 2003  
Rajshahi 2003  


Project history

Ordered on 5 October 1963 and named after East Pakistan towns. Specially strengthened hulls with sea resistant aluminum alloy superstructures.

Modernizations

1980s, Rajshahi: + 2 x 1 - 14.5/93

Naval service

All were attacked by Indian aircraft on 4 December 1971 off Chittagong. Rajshahi was hit six times by four Hunter jets, set on fire, losing one killed and six wounded but regained port after the crew checked flooding and fire in the engine room. Nine aircraft sank Comilla in the same action. Jessore and Sylhet destroyed in air strikes from the carrier Vikrant the same day at Khulna to the West. Jessore salvaged by Bangladeshi Navy.