From 1972 to 2012 the ship was known as USCGC Jarvis and served the United States Coast Guard as a high endurance cutter.

She was decommissioned on 30 March 2012 and was acquired by Bangladesh under the Foreign Assistance Act as an Excess Defense Article.

[10] The ship took part in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training(CARAT), an annual bilateral exercise with United States Navy, in 2015.

[11] Somudra Joy left Chattogram on 30 January 2016 on a seven-day visit to India to join International Fleet Review 2016.

[13] Somudra Joy participated in ASEAN International Fleet Review 2017 held at Pattaya beach of Thailand on 21 November 2017.

Somudra Joy participated in Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition(LIMA)-2019, held from 26 to 30 March.

In January 2025, the ship left Chittagong to attend the exercise Aman-25 held in Karachi, Pakistan from 7 to 11 February, 2025.

[21] On 31 January 2025, the Somudra Joy arrived at the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, for an official visit under the command of Captain Md.