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Ajay-class patrol vessel

Topic: Engineering

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


Class overview
Name: Ajay class
Builders: Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
Operators:
Succeeded by: Pulicat class
Completed: 6
Retired: 6
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:

The Ajay-class patrol vessels were built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in the 1960s. The lead vessel, Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. was the first warship built in Independent India.[1][2][3] They were sometimes viewed as a variant of the Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.s.[4] Two were transferred to the Bangladesh Navy and one to Mauritius; later versions could have different armament

Ships

Name Builder Commissioned Fate Comments
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. GRSE 1961 Transferred to Bangladesh Navy on 26 July 1974 Transferred to the Bangladesh Navy on 26 July 1974, served as missing name and was eventually decommissioned
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. 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]
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. 9 December 1969[5] Decommissioned July 1971 Foundered
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. 11 June 1970[5] Decommissioned 1980s
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. Unknown Transferred to Bangladesh Navy on 12 April 1973[5] Transferred to Bangladesh Navy on 12 April 1973[8] and served as missing name and was eventually decommissioned
Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. 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%3A-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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