The Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force ( SLVNF ) is the active-duty volunteer reserve force of the Sri Lanka Navy . The SLVNF, which consists of the volunteer force and the volunteer reserve is separate from the Regular Naval Force, which consists of the Regular Force consisting of professional naval officers and sailors, and its Regular Reserve, which comprises personal who have a mobilization obligation following their service in the regular force.
10-579: It is headquartered at SLNS Lanka , Welisara, and is tasked with a support and complementary role to the navy, partly by serving as a pool of civilian talent and expertise otherwise lacking in (and not regularly required by) the regular naval force, and partly by acting as a reserve force during times of war. SLVNF, which was established under the Navy Act, No. 34 of 1950, as the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Naval Force (RCVNF) which
20-576: A more regular arm of its military, in the late 1940s. The Navy Act, No. 34 of 1950 established the CRNVR as the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Naval Force (RCVNF) on 9 January 1951, alongside the Royal Ceylon Navy to which the 100 servicemen were transferred. Officers and seamen of the CRNVR not on active service on this date formed the core of the RCVNF, with a strength of 12 officers and 121 men. To keep
30-1435: Is a list of the current Sri Lankan Navy ships as of 2022: In 2017, the US announced they would transfer one Secretary/ Hamilton -class cutter to the SL Navy. The vessel arrived in Sri Lanka 2019 under the pennant number P626. A second Hamilton -class cutter was transferred on 2021 under pennant number P627. In 2014 Sri Lanka ordered two Advanced OPV from Goa Shipyard . First ship joined SLN fleet in August 2017. Sister ship joined 2018 upgraded to light frigate standard. Former USCGC Courageous transferred to Sri Lanka in 2004 SLNS Nandimithra (P701) SLNS Suranimala (P702) SLNS Mihikatha (P350) SLNS Rathnadeepa (P351) Refurbished before being transferred from Australia SLNS Abeetha II (P316) SLNS Edithara II (P317) SLNS Wickrama II (P318 ) SLNS Ranajaya (P330) SLNS Ranadeera (P331) SLNS Ranawickrema (P332) SLNS Ranarisi (P322 ) SLNS Prathapa (P340 ) SLNS Udara (P341 ) P 440 P 441 P 442 P 443 P 4442 P 4443 P 4444 P 4445 P 4446 P 4447 Acquired from Israel in 2010 P 470 P 471 P 472 P 473 P 474 P 475 P 476 P450 - P451 P490 - P492 P497 - P497 Built by Colombo Dockyard for
40-568: Is a ship building company in Sri Lanka and it is based in Colombo . It has built both military and civilian vessels for both local and overseas clients. Colombo Dockyard, established its operations in 1974 and is one of Sri Lanka's engineering facilities in the business of ship repair, ship building, heavy engineering and offshore engineering. It is situated within the Port of Colombo , thus having
50-719: The Sri Lanka Navy Small fast patrol/assault speed boat constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy for use by its littoral warfare units, the Special Boat Squadron (Sri Lanka) and the Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS) Made in Sri Lanka for inshore patrol purpose length 14 meters, speed 30 knots P 480 P 481 P 483 P 484 P 485 Acquired from United States Colombo Dockyard Colombo Dockyard PLC ( CDPLC )
60-754: The Royal Ceylon Volunteer Naval Force too underwent a rechristening, becoming the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force (SLVNF). Since then, the SLVNF has been a key support mechanism to the Sri Lanka Navy during its operations in the Eelam Wars . Citizens with a professional civilian career, in the state- or private sector are eligible to volunteer as officers of the SLVNF, provided they meet educational and professional qualification requirements. Ordinary ratings are recruited to either
70-454: The benefits of a deep water harbor. Colombo Dockyard operates four graving drydocks , the largest one with a capacity of 125,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) as well as repair berth facilities. It is accredited with the ISO 9001-2015 quality certification by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance. Colombo Dockyard has operated in joint collaboration with Onomichi Dockyard Japan since 1993-
80-658: The port H.M.Cy.S. TISSA safe, Port Commission Officers were commissioned as a separate division of the VNF, with Captain M. Chandrasoma as Commanding Officer; this division was disbanded in 1956. The Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 saw the nation become a republic ; the Dominion of Ceylon became the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka . As with the other branches of the Ceylonese armed forces,
90-578: The reserves or to the active Seamen branch, with leave from active duty being granted in 5-year blocks. Tradesmen in particular are encouraged to volunteer through the SLVNF's Volunteer Special Scheme, which seeks to act as a pool of civil- and tradesman talent/experience. All members of the SLVNF are entitled to pensions and other remunerations on the same scale as the regular force. List of Sri Lanka Navy equipment#Shore Establishments The Sri Lankan Naval fleet consists of around fifty combat vessels, support ships and inshore patrol craft. This
100-552: Was renamed as the Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force in 1972. The Sri Lanka Volunteer Naval Force can trace its roots to the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force (CNVF) of British Ceylon , and indeed predates its parent force, the Sri Lanka Navy, by several decades. With Ceylonese independence on the horizon, the Government of Ceylon selected a core cadre of 100 servicemen and officers from the CRNVR to form
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