BNS Sagar
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| History | |
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 Bangladesh | |
| Name | BNS Sagar |
| Commissioned | 27 April 1995 |
| Status | In active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Type 010 minesweeper |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 196 ft 8 in (59.94 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Draught | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 70 (10 officers) |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Armament |
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| Notes | Pennant Number: M 91 |
BNS Sagar is a Type 010 minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She has served in the Bangladeshi Navy since 1995.
Bangladesh government ordered it from China in 1993. First of class handed over 18 December 1994.[1] BNS Sagar was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy on 27 April 1995. She is currently being used as a patrol ship.
She went through an upgrade program in 1998 in which her Tamir II hull mounted active search and attack sonar was replaced by Celsius Tech CMAS36/29 mine detection sonar.
BNS Sagar took part in the rescue operation of the sunken fishing vessel FV Bandhan in Chittagong on 28 November 2014.[2]