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Remembering Heroes on 30th Anniversary of Special Boats Squadron – Fortune Favours Brave – By Admiral Ravindra C. Wijegunaratne (Retired From Sri Lanka Navy) Former Chief of Defence Staff  & Chairman Trincomalee Petroleum Terminals Ltd. Fortune favours the Brave” is the motto of the Sri Lanka Navy’s elite Special Boats Squadron (SBS). The Navy is considered as “Silent Service”, because no one sees what they do, out at sea. The Sri Lanka Navy’s elite Sea Commando Unit is the SBS, which was raised in 1993 to fight against the LTTE Sea Tigers. The SBS is known as the ‘Silent of Silent Service” because of what they do, and their capabilities only a few in the country are aware of. I was fortunate enough to raise this elite unit, in 1993, and Command it twice in my Naval career, during the most demanding times of our battle against the LTTE terrorists, ...

Oct 16, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , ,
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Kavindu Udayanga outstanding weightlifter and powerlifter-Upananda Jayasundera Kavindu Udayanga Ranasinghe Source:Dailynews Kavindu Udayanga Ranasinghe of Vijaya College,Matale is an outstanding Weightlifter and Powerlifter who has done extremely well to be adjudged Best Sportsman at the age of 17 years. He started Weightlifting at the tender age of 14 years under the coaching of Veteran Weight lifter,Indrajith Fernando in the year 2017. In his first contest itself he got the second place at the Sri Lanka Powerlifting Contest participating in the 44 Kg. weight class in the Under 16 age group in the year 2017 and lifted a total of 206 Kgs. In the following year he secured the third place lifting a total of 141 Kgs.at the Junior National Meet contesting in the Under 17 age group and he took a step forward in the same year to win the 50 Kg. weight class at the All Island Power Lifting ...

Jan 23, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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    “BOMBS AWAY” – By Des Kelly I am not sure how this “order” was made in Japanese,  but this did not really matter in 1942, and especially in Trincomalee, Ceylon, where the Japanese AirForce went on a bombing spree, under orders to destroy as many British ships, nestling closely in the biggest natural harbour in the World, at the time. This particular attack wasn’t entirely successful because of the superior strength of the British Navy who were “on guard” for the tiny Island which boasted the fact that it was possibly the most strategic point in the huge Indian Ocean, during the 2nd World War.           Though now possibly forgotten by many, these true stories are part & parcel of why Ceylon never did come under Japanese rule. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) eLanka. The1942 Japanese bombardment Source: Sunday Observer Since 1672 the strategic value of the ...

Feb 24, 2020 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , , , Comments 0
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