BNS Somudra Joy

From 1972 to 2012 the ship was known as [[USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725)]] and served the [[United States Coast Guard|US Coast Guard]] as a [[high endurance cutter]]. She was decommissioned on 30 March 2012 and was acquired by the [[Bangladesh]] under the [[Foreign Assistance Act]] as a ''Excess Defense Article''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Joint Press Conference of the U.S.-Bangladesh Dialogue on Security Issues|url=http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rm/2014/225358.htm|publisher=US Department of State|accessdate=18 July 2015|location=Washington DC|date=22 April 2014}}</ref> A team of US Coast Guard personnel visited [[Bangladesh]] in February 2013. The ship is currently serving with Commanding Commodore BN Flotila (COMBAN). BNS Somudra Joy was sent to Maldives on 09 December 2014, in aid to the water crisis that took place in capital Malé on 08 December, 2014. She carried 100 tonnes of drinking water and five desalination plants there. On 23 April 2015, she left for Qatar to join the multinational maritime exercise, Exercise Ferocious Falcon-2015