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 →
Today two Turkish patrol boats P-337 TCG Atak and P-338 TCG Bora collided in Marmara Sea. Both boats are afloat but 8 sailors have been injured. Neither Turkish Navy nor the Turkish General Staff made any public announcements about the accident therefore all information including the names of the boats are yet to be officially verified. According to news reports the... Continue Reading →
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that the Turkish frigate F-244 TCG Barbaros was dispatched to the site of the collision to help searching for the survivors. She is expected to arrive at the scene in the early morning hours on 21st October 2011. I am afraid that this might be too late... Continue Reading →
The Turkish flagged motor ferry Ankara collided with a Turkish owned and Maltese flagged merchant ship M/V Reina 1 last night off the coast of Albania. The M/V Reina 1 was heavily damaged and sunk as the result of the collision. M/F Ankara was used extensively during the evacuation of Turkish citizens from the Libya as this... Continue Reading →
F-492 TCG Gemlik is continuing her Far East tour. The frigate left TNTG in mid July and proceeds alone. She made port visits in Medan Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Singapore, Shanghai China and Japan. TCG Gemlik made two visits Japan. The first visit was to the small fishery town of Kushimoto and the southern tip... Continue Reading →
On 11 July 2011, huge explosions in Evangelos Florakis Naval Base at Zygi, Cyprus killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens other. The shrapnel and blast from the explosions also damaged the neighboring main electricity plant. A third of Cyprus is in darkness according to electric company. A three-day heat wave that has led to temperatures of about 40 degrees Celsius (104... Continue Reading →
>TCSG - 301 in her better daysUndersecretariat For Maritime Affairs announced that a fire broke out in the engine room of Coast guard vessel TCSG-301 on 4 February 2010 2011.The fire started while the boat was onsea off the coast of Zonguldak. Another coast guard vessel TCSG-128help extinguishing the fire. The extend of the damage... Continue Reading →
>The web site istanbul-pedia.com has complied the worst maritime accidents happened in Bosphorus. It is a gruesome list. Click Maritime Accidents on the Bosphorus to read.Some information on about more recent accidents:Ro/Ro Ella JM/V Poseidon VM/V Oruç Reis (Papur)M/V Josco Nanjing
>M/V Sea Bright aground in Antalya.Yesterady, the continuing storms in Mediterranean Sea casued two ships to run aground in Antalya.The first was Bolivian flagged M/V Sea Bright en route from Tarsus port in Adana to Egypt. She had 18 people on board when she was driven into the rocks by the sea in Antalya town. 17 were... Continue Reading →
>According to Turkish Navy website F-494 TCG Gökçeada was replaced with F-490 TCG Gaziantep.TCG Gaziantep will serve as the flagship of Read Admiral Sinan Ertuğrul, the commander of CTF-151 until 1 December 2010. This is the second deployment of TCG Gaziantep to the region.TCG Gökçeada ran aground 20 day ago at Mombasa, Kenya. Although there has been... Continue Reading →
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