On 5 September 2014, the French signal collection and intelligence gathering ship A-759 Dupuy De Lome finished her 4 deployment to the Black Sea so far in 2014 and made her southbound passage. I bet she will be back in a couple weeks. At the same time as the French ship was making her passage... Continue Reading →
Today the French Type A 69 Aviso class frigate F-796 Commandant Birot and US Navy destroyer DDG-71 USS Ross passed through Turkish Straits and entered to the Black Sea. According to TASS the Canadian frigate FFH-331 HMCS Toronto and the Spanish destroyer F-102 Almirante Juan de Borbon will pass through Turkish Straits on 6 September 2014. ... Continue Reading →
US Navy destroyer, DDG-71 USS Ross passed through the Turkish Straits today and entered to the Black Sea. The Arleigh Burke class ship, is one of the 4 ships upgraded with the Ballistic Missile Defense System and forward deployed in Rota, Spain.
On 29 August 2014 two Russian Ropucha class large landing ships, Novocherkassk and Kaliningrad passed through the Bosphorus and started their Syrian deployment. Date Number Name Direction Nationality 02.01.2014 16 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound Russia 02.01.2014 156 Yamal Northbound Russia 18.01.2014 151 Azov Southbound Russia 18.01.2014 16 Georgiy Pobedonosets Southbound Russia 27.01.2014 102 Kaliningrad Southbound... Continue Reading →
The training ship of Brazilian Navy U-27 Brasil arrived this morning in Istanbul. BNS Brazil stops by in Istanbul every couple of years during the training cruise of Brazilian Naval Cadets. I have no information how long she will stay here.
On 26 August 2014 US Navy cruiser USS Vella Gulf ended her third deployment to the Black Sea. The same day the Russian landing ship Saratov returned to the Black Sea. The two ships must have passed each other somewhere in the vicinity at the northern entrance of the Bosphorus. Date Number Name Direction... Continue Reading →
We have saw an increased traffic in foreign warships on Bosphorus this weekend: On Sunday the Ropucha class landing ship Yamal returned from her Mediterranean cruise. On Saturday, the French intelligence gathering ship Dupuy de Lôme made her fourth northbound passage through the Bosphorus year to date. Sorry, I have no new image of her.... Continue Reading →
The US cruiser USS Vella Gulf returned to the Black Sea for the third time this year. Her second passage was almost one month earlier. Later during the day the Russian large landing ship Yamal made her southbound passage and headed to the Mediterranean. Date Number Name Direction Nationality 02.01.2014 16 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound Russia... Continue Reading →
I have witnessed the northbound passage of the veteran boom defence ship TCG Ağ-5 through Bosphorus. In the age of long ranged ammunition the boom defence vessels are more or less useless for their original purpose. Thus TCG Ağ-5 is mainly used as a tug or buoy tender. Yesterday she was towing a target barge... Continue Reading →
Date Number Name Direction Nationality 02.01.2014 16 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound Russia 02.01.2014 156 Yamal Northbound Russia 18.01.2014 151 Azov Southbound Russia 18.01.2014 16 Georgiy Pobedonosets Southbound Russia 27.01.2014 102 Kaliningrad Southbound Russia 01.02.2014 151 Azov Northbound Russia 01.02.2014 16 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound Russia 05.02.2014 20 Mount Whitney Northbound USA 05.02.2014 50 Taylor Northbound USA... Continue Reading →
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