Today the French intelligence collection ship FS Dupuy de Lôme passed through Turkish Straits too, following the US destroyer USS Donald Cook. The French Navy has been usually active in last couple of weeks in this region: On 28 March 2014, FS Alizé, diving support ship used by the French external intelligence agency passed through Turkish Straits.... Continue Reading →
Today the long-awaited US warship, Arleigh Burke class destroyer DDG-75 USS Donald Cook passed through Turkish Straits. She has entered to the Dardanelles at 07.00 in the morning and passed through Bosphorus at 16.00. She is the second warship USA has send to the Black Sea since the start of the Crimean crisis. The other... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, two Russian landing ships, the Alligator class 150 Saratov and Ropucha class 156 Yamal have passed through Dardanelles as they going for their Syrian Express deployment. The list of Russian warship movements in 2014: Date Number Name Direction 02/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Northbound 02/01/14 156 Yamal Northbound 18/01/14 016 Georgiy Pobedonosets Southbound 18/01/14 151 Azov... Continue Reading →
We are witnessing an increased activity by Turkish Navy in the last few weeks. Here is a short list of the deployed frigates, the mainstay of Turkish Navy: F-490 TCG Gaziantep is participating to Joint Warrior 14-1 naval exercise in Scotland. Later she will visit Norway, Poland and Finland. F-493 TCG Gelibolu is cruising in... Continue Reading →
The last few days we were able to witness a couple of Turkish warships on Bosphorus. The Rhein class tender, A-579 TCG Cezayirli Hasan Paşa is a ship with many missions. She and her sister TCG Sokullu Mehmet Paşa are used for the training cruises of midshipmen of Turkish Naval Academy. The two ships are... Continue Reading →
French Durance class underway replenishment tanker A-608 FS Var arrived in Marmaris in the morning hours on 5 April 2014. Although it was not disclosed how long the ship will stay in Marmaris, it is safe to assume that the port visit will take at least 3 days. It was reported that FS Var is... Continue Reading →
On 4 April 1953, in the wee hours of the morning two Turkish submarines TCG Dumlupınar and her sister boat TCG 1. İnönü,entered from the Aegean into the Dardanelles Strait, as the returning from the NATO naval exercise Blue Sea. The Commodore of First Submarine Squadron was in command of the two submarines and he was on board of TCG Dumlupınar. When... Continue Reading →
Turkish Navy is going to conduct a large-scale exercise in Black Sea and Marmara Sea. The exercise Deniz Yıldızı 2014 will be held between start on 7 and 11 April 2014. There is a long list of participating units as purpose of the exercise is to try to improve operations performed and fleet or task... Continue Reading →
This morning in the early hours, two Russian Ropucha class landing ships 102 Kaliningrad from Baltic Fleet and 012 Olenegorskiy Gorniak from Northern Fleet have passed through Bosphorus as they were returning from their Syrian Express deployment. Both ship made their southbound passage through Bosphorus on 23 March 2014. The list of Russian warship movements in... Continue Reading →
Mr. Kerim Bozkurt, an invaluable contributor to this blog also shared his photos of the FS Alizé as she passed through Bosphorus. She is now in Varna, Bulgaria. According to The Voice of Russia she is going to take part in joint sea rescue exercises. The photos below are taken from informative blog Sea Dog.
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