River Class Patrol Vessel for Bangladesh Navy

[unit786]

On flickr.com there is a photo of a River class OPV titled "Docked at North Shields - one of the two Vessels being made ready for the Bangladesh Navy to use."

Could the photographer have mistaken this for the Castle class vessel? The interesting fact is that this ship does not seem to display any pennant numbers so I am confused as to who it belongs to.

Note that the River class OPV were leased for the Royal Navy though VT Shipbuilding owns them. Is VT building patrol craft for the Bangladesh Navy now?

[astraltrader]

I have moved this thread to "All Other Ships" as we cant very well have a photogallery with just one picture!! :rolleyes:

[davep]

i think the photographer has just mistaken it for a castle class, there is a pennant number its just unreadable, looks like one of the fish boats on a stand off

[rumrat]

It's TYNE in for stand down of Fish Patrol.
Dave

[unit786]

Thanks guys.