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Pages in category "Ships of the Sri Lanka Coast Guard" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. J.
The ship is named after King Vijayabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lanka who founded the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa. Formerly, USCGC Douglas Munro (WHEC-724) and USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) , a High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard , named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), the only coast guardsman to ...
The ship is the second ship named after King Gajabahu I, the warrior king of the medieval Sri Lankan Kingdom of Anuradhapura. Formerly, it was USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720) a United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class high endurance cutter named for John Sherman , the 32nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and author of the Sherman Antitrust Act .
In 2009, the Minister of Defence President Mahinda Rajapaksa presented a cabinet paper suggesting the reestablishment of the Coast Guard, leading to the Sri Lanka Coast Guard Coast Guard Act, No. 41 of 2009 being enacted by parliament on 9 July 2009. [4] The SLCG was thus reestablished in its current form seven years after its initial disbanding.
SLNS Samudura (P621) (Sinhala: සමුදුර, romanized: Samudura) is a Sri Lanka Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel. Originally commissioned by the United States Coast Guard in 1968 as the medium endurance cutter USCGC Courageous, she was donated to Sri Lanka in 2004 and commissioned on 19 February 2005.
Ships of the Sri Lanka Coast Guard (2 P) Pages in category "Sri Lanka Coast Guard" This category contains only the following page.
In 2004 she took part in a joint naval exercise with the Indian Coast Guard. Since the end of the civil war she has engaged in search and rescue missions in the Indian Ocean. [4] [5] [1] In October 2021, SLNS Jayasagara relinquishes her service in the Navy and handed over to the Sri Lanka Coast Guard [6]
SLNS Sagara (Sagara meaning: Sea) is an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) of the Sri Lanka Navy.It was formerly the ICGS Varaha (41), a Vikram-class offshore patrol vessel of the Indian Coast Guard, leased to Sri Lanka in 2006 and was handed over to the Sri Lanka Navy in 2015.