HMCyS Vijaya
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Name | Flying Fish |
Ordered | as Tillsonburg |
Builder | Redfern Construction Co., Toronto |
Yard number | 55 |
Laid down | 30 October 1943 |
Launched | 16 February 1944 |
Completed | 14 October 1944 |
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Name | Vijaya |
Namesake | King Vijaya |
Acquired | 1951 |
Commissioned | 1951 |
Out of service | 1963 |
Homeport | Trincomalee |
Fate | broken up, 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Algerine-class minesweeper |
Displacement |
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Length | 225 ft (69 m) o/a |
Beam | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
Draught | 12.25 ft 6 in (3.89 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
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HMCyS Vijaya, named in honor of
Design and description
The reciprocating group displaced 1,010–1,030 long tons (1,030–1,050 t) at
The reciprocating ships had two
The Algerine class was armed with a
Construction
The vessel was put on order from the
Career
As HMS Flying Fish
HMS Flying Fish was commissioned into the Royal Navy in October 1944. She had an uneventful career as a minesweeper until the end of hostilities. After the war she was given to Ceylon on indefinite loan by Britain in 1949 at Singapore with a formal transfer in Colombo.[3]
As HMCyS Vijaya
When the Royal Ceylon Navy was formed in 1951 it became the first warship of the navy and was named after the first King of the Island. The First Sri Lankan Captain on the vessel was
From 1949 Vijaya became the training platform for the new navy and began undertaking anti-smuggling and anti-illicit immigration patrols in coastal waters. In May 1951 she sailed to Maldives with Sir John Kotelawala, Minister for Transport and Works and his party for a short visit. Next year she paid another call to participate in the Proclamation of the Maldivian Republic. In 1952 she sailed to Britain to represent the Royal Ceylon Navy at the
“Vijaya” undertook several training and operational tasks, including, a visit to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands with VNF officers and sailors (1954), a visit to Male with VNF officers and sailors (1954), a training cruise to Bombay and Karachchi (1954), a visit to Madras with VNF officers and sailors (1955), a visit to Cochin on a Minesweeping exercise (1955).
Vijaya ran aground during a cyclone in the Gulf of Mannar in December 1964.
She was scrapped in 1975.[4]
References
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (2003). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- "Flying Fish (6117869)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
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