BNS ''Bijoy'' is a guided missile corvette of the

Bangladesh Navy The Bangladesh Navy ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নৌবাহিনী, Bangladesh Nou Bahini) is the naval warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, responsible for Bangladesh's of maritime territorial area, and the defence of imp ...

. She has been serving in the Bangladesh Navy since 2011.

Description

''Bijoy'' carries four C-704 automated

anti-ship missile An anti-ship missile (AShM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea skimming variety, and many use a combination of inertial guidance and active radar homing. A goo ...

s as well as one H/PJ-26 76 mm main gun and two Oerlikon 20 mm auto cannons. She has a

flight deck The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. On smaller naval ships which do not have aviation as a primary mission, the landing area for helicopte ...

which can accommodate a

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

up to

Westland Sea King The Westland WS-61 Sea King is a British licence-built version of the American Sikorsky S-61 helicopter of the same name, built by Westland Helicopters. The aircraft differs considerably from the American version, with Rolls-Royce Gnome engin ...

size.

History

The ship was

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Hall, Russell & Company Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland. History Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boile ...

Aberdeen, Scotland Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), an ...

, on 25 June 1980 and launched on 3 June 1981. She was commissioned into the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...

as on 12 March 1982. She served the Royal Navy from 1982 to 2008. The ship was decommissioned in 2008 and, in April 2010, sold to the

Bangladesh

From 21 May 2010, the ship underwent a major refit, installing upgrades to suit the Bangladesh Navy's requirements, which continued until December 2010. The Bangladesh Navy formally acquired the ship on 14 May 2010. ''Bijoy'' reached Chittagong on 21 January 2011. On 5 March 2011, the ship was commissioned into the Bangladesh Navy as BNS ''Bijoy''. She took part in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), a bilateral exercise with the

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, in 2011 and 2015. On 1 December 2017, BNS ''Bijoy'' departed for

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

to join the Maritime Task Force of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). She replaced two Bangladesh Navy ships, and on 1 January 2018, which had deployed earlier. En route, she paid a goodwill visit to the

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from 6 to 8 December. On 4 August 2020, BNS ''Bijoy'' was berthed in the Port of Beirut during a massive onshore explosion. The ship received moderate damage and 21 crew members were injured in the blast. The crew of ''Bijoy'' received medical assistance and help with damage assessment from the Brazilian frigate ''Independência'', the flagship of the UNIFIL fleet. After assessment ''Bijoy'' was towed by the ocean tug TCG ''İnebolu'' to

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, where she was repaired in the naval shipyard at Aksaz Naval Base. After completing the repair works, the ship returned home on 25 October 2020. Another corvette, , replaced her in the UNIFIL mission.

References

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Bangladesh

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