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[1] [2] On 30 March 1996, the Dvora fast attack craft P-458 was destroyed when it intercepted and struck an LTTE suicide craft attacking a navy troop transport off the coast of Northern Sri Lanka, its commanding officer Lieutenant Jude Wijethunge was posthumously awarded the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, the highest medal for gallantry in Sri ...
Attack on Colombo Harbour was a suicide attack carried out by 3 Black Sea Tiger suicide craft of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the Colombo Harbour, which is the primary commercial port in Sri Lanka.
Attack on Galle Harbour [3] was a suicide attack [1] carried out by 15 Sea Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the commercial Galle Harbour and Sri Lanka Navy base SLNS Dakshina in the tourist town of Galle in southern Sri Lanka. [1]
The bombing of SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru was an attack carried out on 19 April 1995 by LTTE suicide frogmen of the Sea Tigers, who attacked and sank two Sri Lanka Navy gun boats moored in the harbor of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka by planting explosives on them.
The Ultra Fast Attack Craft, commonly known as the UFAC [2] or Colombo class, is a Sri Lankan ultra high-speed class of patrol boats meant for a variety of naval missions from off-shore coastal patrol missions to high-speed, high-maneuver littoral warfare. They are based on the Shaldag boats made by Israel.
The Jaffna lagoon massacre or Kilaly massacre occurred on January 2, 1993, when a Sri Lankan Navy Motor Gun Boat and a number of smaller speed boats intercepted a number of boats transporting people between the south and north shores of the Jaffna Lagoon in the Northern province in Sri Lanka, and attacked them under the glare of a spot light.
The Battle of Point Pedro 2007 was a naval battle that occurred on June 19, 2007 near Point Pedro, [1] Jaffna, Sri Lanka.The battle took place when Sri Lankan Navy patrol boats were attacked by a group of Tamil Tiger patrol boats off the shore of Point Pedro.
News of the attack soon reached Colombo and within hours of the start of the attack the three service commanders - Lieutenant General Rohan Daluwatte (army), Rear Admiral Mohan Samarasekera (navy) and Air Marshall Oliver Ranasinghe (air force) - were flown to the Elephant Pass military base to oversee the rescue effort. [19]