USCGC Jarvis (WHEC-725) is a United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class high endurance cutter based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. Launched April 24, 1971 at Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana, she was commissioned August 4, 1972 in Honolulu. She received a $55 million FRAM upgrade at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington between July 1990 and December 1992.
The ship was named for David H. Jarvis, a hero of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. During the harsh winter of 1897-1898, Lieutenant Jarvis of the US Revenue Cutter Bear led the Overland Relief Expedition to bring needed food to 265 whalers whose ships had been stranded in the ice off the northern coast of Alaska.

Jarvis completed her final cruise in late September 2012, and was removed from active service the following week. Admiral Cecil D. Haney (Cmdr US Pacific Fleet) said that the Jarvis is scheduled to be transferred to Bangladesh in mid 2013. A team of US Coast Guard personnel visited Bangladesh in February 2013 for a meeting. The first group of Bangladesh Navy personnel, consisting of 7 officers and 13 sailors, left Bangladesh in February and will start training onboard Jarvis starting on March 13, 2013. It is expected that the cutter will be transferred to Bangladesh Navy on May 23 and, and after renovation, she will be commissioned into the Bangladesh Navy on October 11 2013.



Lt. j.g. Caleb Fall, an assistant engineering officer assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis, explains to the Bangladesh Navy the functions which control the speed of the cutter while underway in the Pacific Ocean aboard the Jarvis April 13, 2013. The country Bangladesh will receive the Jarvis after the cutter's decommissioning ceremony held on May 23, 2013. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart)

Chief Alexander Brown, a boatswain mate assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis, explains the functions of a safety vest to a Bangladesh Navy Cmdr. Kutub Uddin, aboard the cutter currently moored at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., April 9, 2013. The country of Bangladesh will receive the Jarvis after the cutter's decommissioning ceremony, held on May 23, 2013.

Jarvis will be refitted in Bangladesh with AK–176M main gun, 2x Type 730B CIWS,, 1×8 FM-90N SAM launcher, 2×4 C-803 SSM launchers, 2× 3 torpedo launchers, 2×6 asw anti-submarine rockets & ASW helicopter on board and will be named After M. A. G. Osmany Who Was The Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. (BNS OSMANI)

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