Ajay-class patrol vessel

Short description: India's First indigenously built patrol vessel class

Class overview
Name| Ajay class
Builders| Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
Operators|

* Indian Navy
* Bangladesh Navy
* Mauritius Navy/Coast Guard

Succeeded by| Pulicat class
Completed| 6
Retired| 6
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General characteristics
Type| Patrol vessel
Displacement|

* 120 tons (standard)
* 151 tons (full)

Length| 35.7 m (117 ft 2 in)
Beam| 6.1 m (20 ft 0 in)
Draught| 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in)
Propulsion|

* 2 Paxman YHAXM diesel engines
* 1,000 hp (750 kW)
* 2 shafts

Speed| 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range| 500 nmi (930 km; 580 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement| 35
Armament|

* 1 x Bofors 40 mm gun
* 4 x GIAT 20 mm F2 AA gun

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The Ajay-class patrol vessels were built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in the 1960s. The lead vessel, INS Ajay was the first warship built in Independent India.[1][2][3] They were sometimes viewed as a variant of the Ford-class seaward defence boats.[4] Two were transferred to the Bangladesh Navy and one to Mauritius; later versions could have different armament

## Ships

Name  | Builder  | Commissioned  | Fate  | Comments

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Ajay | GRSE | 1961  | Transferred to Bangladesh Navy on 26 July 1974  | Transferred to the Bangladesh Navy on 26 July 1974, served as BNS Surma and was eventually decommissioned
Amar | 11 July 1969[5] | Decommissioned March 1974  | Transferred to Mauritius and commissioned as MNS Amar on 3 April 1974. She was later re-commissioned in the Mauritius Coast Guard as CGS Amar on 24 July 1987. She served as Mauritius's only naval vessel for over two decades, and was decommissioned on 19 March 1998.[6][7]
Ajit | 9 December 1969[5] | Decommissioned July 1971  | Foundered
Atul | 11 June 1970[5] | Decommissioned 1980s  |
Akshay | Unknown  | Transferred to Bangladesh Navy on 12 April 1973[5] | Transferred to Bangladesh Navy on 12 April 1973[8] and served as BNS Padma and was eventually decommissioned
Abhay | 13 November 1961  | Decommissioned 20 June 1980[5] |

## References

1. ↑ "Indian Navy Indigenisation Present State". Indian Navy. https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/present-state.
2. ↑ "Achievements & Highlights". Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. http://www.grse.in/index.php/achievements/achievement-highlights.
3. ↑ "Keel Laying of Fast Patrol Vessel at GRSE". Sainik Samachar. http://sainiksamachar.nic.in/englisharchives/2017/may16-17/h4.htm.
4. ↑ "BNS Padma - Coastal Patrol Craft (Akshay / Ajay Class)". globalsecurity.org. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/bangladesh/bns-padma.htm.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Indian Navy’s Inshore Patrol Vessels". Orbat.info. http://www.orbat.info/cimh/navy/Indian_Navy_Inshore_Patrol_Vessels.pdf.
6. ↑ "The Mauritius-India Naval Relationship: Naval Diplomacy 2.0". idsa.in. https://idsa.in/africatrends/the-mauritius-india-naval-relationship:-naval-diplomacy.
7. ↑ "40 Years of the Maritime Wing of the Mauritius Police Force (1974-2014)". mauritianphilatelicblog. http://mauritianphilatelicblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/40-years-of-maritime-wing-of-mauritius.html.
8. ↑ "Bangladesh Navy History". Bangladesh Navy. http://www.navy.mil.bd/bn_history2.php. Retrieved 5 January 2017.

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