Photogaphed at Portsmouth Dockyard on 11 July 1982
The vessel was laid down in 1975 by Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen. HMS Shetland was launched on 22 October 1976
In 1992, Shetland seized cocaine with a street value of £30 million from a British-registered oil rig support vessel, 170 miles east of Newcastle. In 1978, Shetland saved the trawler Random Harvest, on fire in the North Sea
Once decommissioned by the Royal Navy, Shetland was sold to Bangladesh's Navy in 2003/04, along with 4 other ships of the same class to protect the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Bay of Bengal. She was renamed BNS Kapatakhaya
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