The Russian Kilo class submarine, Alrosa will indeed take part in the NATO exercise Bold Monarc. Russia will send a small task force from its Black Sea Fellet consisting of diesel submarine Alrosa, mooring lighter KIL-158, rescue ship Epron, and salvage tug Shakhter to Bold Monarch-2011. NATO organizes this large-scale submarine rescue in every three years. This year the exercise will be conducted... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy reported that F-491 TCG Giresunfreed a Yemeni fishing boat from Somali pirates on 24 April 2011. The suspicious looking fishing dhow was sighted 300 miles of the coast of Umman. and the nearest warship, TCG Giresun was ordered to intercept the boat and to inspect it. When the dhow was in sight of... Continue Reading →
The second boat of the New Type Patrol Boat, P-1201 TCG Karaburun was handed over to Turkish Navy on 20 April, 2010 Wednesday 19 April 2011. This is a temporary commissioning as the warranty period of the shipyard is still valid. The boat will be handed over to Turkish Navy permanently after the expiration of... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, Pakistan's newest frigate F-230 PNS Alamgir arrived in Gölcük Naval Base for a 4 day visit. PNS Alamgir is a Oliver Perry Hazard class frigate. She was decommissioned from USN. She was commissioned in Pakistani navy on 31 August 2010. She left USA on 10 February 2011 and since then she is on her... Continue Reading →
Turkey's current contribution to NATO's SNMG-2, F-491 TCG Giresun was the first ship to help the Korean merchantship Hanjin Tianjin, yesterday. According to news reports, the Korean ship was apparently attacked by Somali pirates early Thursday. The crew of the merchant ship was able to hide inside the citadel before the pirates could take them as hostages.... Continue Reading →
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff of the United Kingdom visited his counter part Admiral Yiğit Uğur and the Chief of Turkish General Staff General Işık Koşaner today. Neither the Turkish Navy nor the Turkish General Staff released any public statements about the visits and topics discussed. Besides the usual relations between the two countries the has been a... Continue Reading →
The Turkish ferry M/F Ankara has left Alexandria, Egypt and is heading to Misurata. With her current speed she will arrive in the Libyan town in 26 hours. On 12 April she has left Benghazi with 1025 Egyptian evacuees on board. She was in Alexandria since 14 April 2011. Disaster and Emergency Management Agency and Turkish Red Crescent are sending 818 tons of... Continue Reading →
The BlackSeaFor fleet arrived at the Ukrainian port Sevastopol for a port visit. After spending 5 days in Istanbul with festivities to celebrate the 10. anniversary of the BlackSeaFor, the fleet then moved to the Black Sea. En route from Istanbul to Sevastopol, the BLACKSEAFOR ships had conducted several joint exercises. In particular, they worked out the issues of navigation control and the detection of suspicious... Continue Reading →
The Bulgarian navy will modernise three of its frigates by 2014, Defence Minister Anyu Angelov said on April 12 2011, as quoted by the Bulgarian news agency BTA. By the end of 2014, several ships will be decommissioned from the Bulgarian navy, including a submarine and several "missile boats" and mine sweepers, Angelov said. The... Continue Reading →
Yesterday on 12 April 2011, the 5 tugs towing the hull of the former British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible arrived at Aliağa, İzmir. She was beached at the ship breakers. Her dismantling and recycling will resume soon. It will take eight months to dismantle. A Turkish ship breaker won the bid for the hull of the HMS Invincible... Continue Reading →
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