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Advanced offshore patrol vessels (Patrol frigates ) Secretary/ Hamilton class. United States. 3250 tonnes. 2. SLNS Gajabahu (P626) SLNS Vijayabahu (P627) In 2017, the US announced they would transfer one Secretary/ Hamilton -class cutter to the SL Navy. [ 1] The vessel arrived in Sri Lanka 2019 under the pennant number P626. [ 2]
The Sri Lanka Navy set a medium-term fleet expansion goal targeting ten new vessels in its 'Sri Lanka Navy 2025' plan as part of its expansion of blue water operations. [ 65 ] According to the Maritime Doctrine of Sri Lanka (MDSL) published in 2020, the establishment of Naval Aviation consisting of helicopters and drones have been proposed and ...
SLNS Vijayabahu (P627) ( Sinhala: විජයබාහු, romanized: Vijayabāhu) is an Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy. The ship is named after King Vijayabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lanka who founded the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa . Formerly, USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) and USCGC Munro (WHEC-724), a ...
SLNS Jayasena - Shanghai class fast gun boat. SLNS Jayesagra - Jayasagara Class patrol craft commissioned on 1983 Dec 9. K. SLNS Kandula - Landing Craft Medium commissioned in 1985. HMCyS Kotiya - Seaward defence boat commissioned on 1955 May 8 and sank at her moorings during the cyclone “Emily” on 1964 Dec 24.
6 × .50 caliber machine guns. ZU-23-2. SLNS Gajabahu (P626) ( Sinhala: ගජබාහු, romanized: Gajabāhu) is an Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy. The ship is the second ship named after King Gajabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lankan Kingdom of Anuradhapura . Formerly, it was USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) a ...
Aircraft carried. HH-65 Dolphin. SLNS Samudura (P621) (Sinhala: සමුදුර, romanized: Samudura) is a Sri Lanka Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel. Originally commissioned by the United States Coast Guard in 1968 as the medium endurance cutter USCGC Courageous, she was donated to Sri Lanka in 2004 and commissioned on 19 February 2005.
The Dvora class has become the work horse of the Sri Lanka Navy which has deployed it since the mid-1980s to counter LTTE operations at sea. Since then Dvoras have been made in Sri Lanka and has been the basis for the more advanced Colombo class fast patrol boat built by the Colombo Dockyard Limited and used by South Asian navies to counter terrorism.
Naval Ensign of the Royal Ceylon Navy (1950-1972). In January 1938 the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force (CNVF) was created with Commander W. G. Beauchamp as Commanding Officer. On 31 August 1939, the CNVF was mobilized for war duties. Three years later, the CNVF was offered to, and accepted by the Royal Navy (RN) as a Volunteer Reserve, the "Ceylon ...