Decisively Samudravijaya, or, Starting a New Career at 58

The ex-USCGC Decisive (WMEC 629), a B-Type Reliance-class 210-foot gunboat/cutter, is now in active service as SLNS Samudravijaya (SLS P 628) in the Sri Lankan Navy. I guess SLS P 629 was already taken or something. Note she now carries a twin Bofors 40mm L70 mount forward, an upgrade from the MK 38 25mm chain gun she carried for the past 30 years with the USCG, while, arguably, still short of the 3″/50 MK 22 Decisive, which she was commissioned with in 1968. A simple ship with twin diesel engines and almost zero automation, she joins class member SLNS Samudura (P261)/ex-USCGC Courageous, which has been in service with the force since 2005, and two former 378-foot Hamilton-class cutters transferred in recent years, SLNS Gajabahu (P626)/ex-USCGC Sherman, and SLNS Vijayabahu (P627)/ex-USCGC Munro. She self-deployed 14,775nm to her new home from the USCG Yard at Curtis Bay, ironically, where she was built in the 1960s. Once upon a time, she was stationed at CGS Pascagoula, formerly…