BNS Umar Farooq
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| Name: | BNS Umar Farooq |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 27 August 1953 |
| Launched: | 30 November 1955 |
| Acquired: | 1976 |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1976 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F-16 |
| Fate: | Being used as a museum ship |
| Status: | Decommissioned |
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| Class & type: | Salisbury-class frigate |
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| Length: | 103.5 m (340 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
| Draught: | 4.7 m (15 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 8 × ASR1 diesels, 12,400 shp (9.2 MW), 2 × shafts |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,300 nautical miles (4,300 km) at 24 knots (44 km/h); 7,500 nautical miles (13,900 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 223 (14 officers) |
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BNS Umar Farooq is a Salisbury-class frigate of the Bangladesh Navy. She is the first frigate to enter service with the Bangladesh Navy.
History
The ship previously served the Royal Navy as HMS Llandaff. She served the Royal Navy from 1958 to 1976. On 10 December 1976, she was transferred to the Bangladesh Navy.
Career
On 10 December 1976, BNS Umar Farooq was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy. She is currently based at Chittagong, serving with the Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN). About 200 personnel serve aboard Umar Farooq, with most living aboard her.
Umar Farooq paid a goodwill visit to India, Pakistan and Maldives in 1989.
The ship participated in the International Fleet Review in South Korea in 1998.
On 26 February 2007, Umar Farooq paid a two-day goodwill visit to Kochi Port of India.[1] In December 2010, the ship made a three day visit to the Indian naval base at Visakhapatnam.[2]
In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a 777-200ER, disappeared during flight. Due to the possibility of finding the wreckage in Bay of Bengal, Umar Farooq, along with the frigate Bangabandhu, joined the search operation in this region.[3]
She was decommissioned on 30 December 2015 after serving Bangladesh Navy for around 39 years. Her total service life was of 57 years. Now the ship is being used as museum ship.[4]
Mission
Umar Farooq is deployed to support operations off the Bangladeshi coast, such as anti-piracy and anti-smuggling operations, as well as search and rescue deployments. The ship is very useful in any search operation, as she carries the radar with the longest range among Bangladesh Navy ships.
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