Today the US Arleigh Burke class destroyer DDG-55 USS Stout arrived in Bodrum, Turkey for 3 day port visit. The ship's last visit to Bodrum was in 2009. USS Stout is on deployment with the US 6th Fleet since leaving her home port in Virginia in December 2010, for a scheduled six-month rotation to the Mediterranean. Although... Continue Reading →
Yesterday a Turkish flagged merchant ship carrying humanitarian aid docked at Misrata port. But as soon as the ship was in harbor forces royal to Ghaddafi started to shell the port. The ship was able to get underway and leave the port undamaged. According to Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) - yes, the same IHH that send... Continue Reading →
In 2006 , The Commander of Turkish Naval Forces Admiral Yener Karahanoğlu, laid down the long terms amphibious ship acquisition goals for Turkish Navy: • One LPD • Two LST’s • 8 fast LCT’s • 27 AAV/AAAV’s According to this road map in 2007, Ministry of Defence's Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (UDI), submitted a RfP for 8 LCT’s. From... Continue Reading →
On 31 March 2011, a contact about the modernization of Ay class (Type 209/1200) submarines was signed between STM and Undersecretariat for Defence Industries. The contract covers the youngest two boats, S-51 TCG Doğanay and S-352 TCG Dolunay . My previous information about the new Zeiss periscopes, that will replace the existing Kollmorgen periscopes was wrong. I wrote that the new periscopes would be... Continue Reading →
If it was made public by somebody else, I would laugh my ... off, but when it comes from the prime minister himself, then it is not so fanny any more. Turkey will build a new waterway to bypass the heavily congested Bosphorus Strait, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. He said the 150m-wide... Continue Reading →
The missing Turkish ferry M/F Ankara returned to Çeşme, İzmir. The ship of course was never missing officialy but she was not seen or reported for the last couple of days. M/F Ankara is a civilian ferry. She was used in the evacuation of civilians from Libya in March with her sisters M/F Samsun and... Continue Reading →
Today, on 26 April 2011, the April 2011 activation of the BlackSeaFor has ended. The task force of following ships, left Russian port Novorossiysk after a 3 day visit and returned to their home ports. Pennant Ship Type Country F-240 TCG Yavuz Frigate Turkey F-42 BGS Verni Frigate Bulgaria P-24 GCG Sokhumi Patrol Boat Georgia... Continue Reading →
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 →
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