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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, t	143
Length, m	32.6 oa 30.5 pp
Breadth, m	6.10
Draught, m	1.55
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 equipment	radar
Complement	19

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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.