The Bangladesh Navy acquired the ship from the United States under Excess Defense Articles.

[1] From 1969 to 2015 the ship was known as USCGC Rush and served the US Coast Guard as a high endurance cutter.

She was decommissioned on 3 February 2015 and was acquired by Bangladesh under the Foreign Assistance Act as an Excess Defense Article.

[2] BNS Somudra Avijan visited the port of Manila, Philippines from 13 to 16 November 2015 on her way to Bangladesh from United States.

[11][12] The ship left Chattogram on 18 April 2018 to take part in 3rd Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo (MNEK-2018) to be held in Lombok, Indonesia from 4 May to 9 May 2018.