SLNS Sayura

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SLNS Sayura
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SLNS Sayura, at Colombo Harbour in March 2017
History
Naval Ensign of India.svgIndia
NameINS Sarayu
Namesake Sarayu River
Builder Hindustan Shipyard Limited
Laid down25 June 1988
Launched16 October 1989
Commissioned8 October 1991
Decommissioned1 November 2000
Home portINS Virbahu, Visakhapatnam
Identification Pennant number: P54
FateSold to Sri Lanka Navy 1 November 2000
Naval Ensign of Sri Lanka.svgSri Lanka
NameSLNS Sayura
Acquired1 November 2000
Commissioned2000
Home port SLN Dockyard, Trincomalee
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class & type Sukanya-class patrol vessel [1]
Displacement1,890 tons (full load) [1]
Length101 m (331 ft)
Beam11.5 m (38 ft)
Propulsion2 × diesel engines, 12,800 bhp (9,540 kW), 2 shafts
Speed22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Range7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement140 (incl 15 officers)
Sensors &
processing systems
  • 1 × Racal Decca 2459 search radar
  • 1 BEL 1245 navigation radar
Armament
Aircraft carried1 HAL Chetak

SLNS Sayura (Sayura, in Sinhalese: Sea) is the former flagship and an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Sri Lanka Navy.

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She was formerly INS Sarayu, a Sukanya-class patrol vessel of the Indian Navy sold to Sri Lanka in 2000. [2] She was upgraded with new armament in India before being delivered to the Sri Lanka Navy. India also committed to providing maintenance and refit of the ship. [3]

She serves as the flagship of the Sri Lanka Navy and obtained several remarkable naval victories against the naval branch of Tamil Tiger rebels (Sea Tigers). She was recently equipped with Yingi Y-82 anti-ship missiles and surface to air missiles.[ citation needed ]

Operations

Sayura was tasked with deep-sea patrolling both within the Sri Lankan territorial waters and in international waters to curb arms smuggling by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). During the 4th Ealam war after undergoing a major refit in India, Sayura, along with other OPVs of the Sri Lanka Navy, successfully intercepted several ships smuggling arms for the LTTE. In all these cases the ships were sunk when the LTTE Sea Tigers attacked the naval vessels with mortars. Sayura also participated in the Cadex 2009 military training exercises with the Indian Navy after the war ended. [4]

In 2017, it sailed to Langkawi to take part in LIMA 2017 with a detachment of the newly formed Marine battalion. [5]

Commanding officers

The first Sri Lankan Navy officer to Captain the ship was then Captain SMAJ Perera USP, psc.

Since then it has been commanded by:

INS Sarayu

Commissioned 10 April 1991, INS Sarayu (P54) served with the Indian Navy until she was sold to Sri Lanka on 1 November 2000.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. 1 2 "Surface Ships of Indian Navy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2009.
  2. ↑ name=in-sukanya / "Surface Ships of Indian Navy". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2009.
  3. ↑ "Title unknown" (PDF). Archived from the original (pdf) on 12 December 2006.
  4. ↑ "Sri Lanka and India Navy conduct joint naval training exercise". Ministry of Defence and Urban Development - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. 6 October 2009. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  5. ↑ ‘Sayura’ leaves for Malaysia to attend LIMA-2017
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