HMS Jersey was an Island-class

Island class patrol vessel

The Island-class patrol vessel was first designed and built for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency. As a result of the Royal Navy's experiences in the so-called Cod War with Iceland, and the success of FPV Jura in fishery protection patrols, the Navy built a further seven...

 patrol vessel of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 (RN). She was named after the island of Jersey

Jersey

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

, part of the Channel Islands

Channel Islands

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.

She was built at Aberdeen

Aberdeen

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, being launched in 1976 by HRH Princess Anne

Anne, Princess Royal

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 and subsequently commissioned into the Navy later that year. She was the first ship of the class to be commissioned; six more would follow her.

As part of the Fishery Protection Squadron

Fishery Protection Squadron

The Fishery Protection Squadron is a front-line squadron of the Royal Navy with responsibility for patrolling the UK's Extended Fisheries Zone...

, along with her sister-ships, Jersey patrolled the waters around the UK (sometimes also Gibraltar

Gibraltar

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) providing protection for Britain's fishing grounds, as well as providing oil

Oil

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 and gas

Gas

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 platform protection.

Decommissioning

She was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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 in 1994, entering its navy as the training ship Shaheed Ruhul Amin, being accompanied by all but one of its sister-ships. All of the Island class were decommissioned by January 2004, being replaced by the much more modern River-class

River class patrol vessel

The River class is a class of three offshore patrol vessels in the Royal Navy, replacing the seven ships of the Island class. A fourth, modified vessel based on the River class has also been built for the Royal Navy, replacing the Castle class, for duties in the Falklands...

patrol vessels.