Sri Lanka Navy SLNS Vijayabahu Commissioned

Sri Lanka's President commissioned the offshore patrol vessel P627 as SLNS Vijayabahu at the East Container Terminal of the Port of Colombo on 22 November 2022, according to a Sri Lanka Navy statement published by SeaWaves Magazine. The ship is the former US Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutter Douglas Munro, handed over at Seattle on 26 October 2021, and reached Colombo on 2 November 2022 after a voyage from Seattle that began on 3 September. The US Ambassador attended. She is the third US-donated ship in the Sri Lankan fleet.