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P490 - P492. P497 - P497. Built by Colombo Dockyard for the Sri Lanka Navy. Arrow speed boats. Sri Lanka. 154+ [17] Small fast patrol/assault speed boat constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy for use by its littoral warfare units, the Special Boat Squadron (Sri Lanka) and the Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS) [18] Wave Rider class.
The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා නාවික හමුදාව, romanized:Śrī Laṃkā nāvika hamudāva; Tamil: இலங்கை கடற்படை, romanized:Ilaṅkai kaṭaṟpaṭai) is the naval arm of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and is classed as the country's most vital defence force due to its ...
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.
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 ...
However with the Naval Boat Building Yard introducing the Arrow-class the asymmetric tactics of the Sea Tigers were no longer effective. In 2006, Navy confronted LTTE 21 times and in 2007 12 times and by 2008 (up-to-date) only 04 times as the Sea Tigers lost cadres and fighting platforms. [1] [2] [3]
Navy House official residence of the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, located in SLN Dockyard. Trincomalee is a natural deep-water harbour that has attracted seafarers like Marco Polo, Ptolemy and traders from China and East Asia since ancient times. Trinco, as it is commonly called, has been a sea port since the days of the ancient Sri Lankan ...
List of Sri Lanka Navy active ships. Categories: Naval ships by country. Military equipment of Sri Lanka. Ships of Sri Lanka. Military units and formations of Sri Lanka. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
SLNS Jayasagara (P-601) (Jayasagara, in Sinhalese: Sea of victory) is an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) of the Sri Lanka Navy. It was the lead ship of the locally built Jayasagara class. She served as the flagship of the fleet in the 1980s and 1990s. [1] [2]