One of the participants of the Royal Navy's Response Force Task Group (RFTG) in Cougar 2013, RFA Mounts Bay arrived in Bodrum for a week long visit. Click here for a video of the ship.
F-42 Constituição In Istanbul
After finishing her visit to Sevastopol, Ukraine, the Brazilian frigate F-42 Constituição, arrived in Istanbul 3 days ago. The Niteroi class frigate F-42 Constituição took part as the Brazilian participant to UNIFIL. She was relived by the frigate F-45 Unitao by the same class in July.
SNMG-2 Press Conference On Board SPS Blas De Lezo
On 24 July 2013 late afternoon NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 2 (SNMG-2) arrived in Istanbul. The group was in the Black Sea since 5 July and visited Bulgaria, and Ukraine and conducted training with Bulgarian and Romanian naval units. Currently, SNMG-2 consists of the Spanish frigate F-103 SPS Blas De Lezo and Turkish frigate F-246... Continue Reading →
Brazilian Frigate In Ukraine
While I was able to take photo of many warships in the last couple of days, the maritime traffic on Bosphorus is so large, I have missed one. On 24 July the Niteroi class Brazilian frigate F-42 Constituição passed through the Bosphorus and arrived in Sevastopol, Ukraine for an official visit. She will stay in... Continue Reading →
Algerian Warship In Istanbul
The Chinese build Daxin class training ship of the Algerian Navy 937 ANS Soummam was in Istanbul for a visit. This visit is a port of the training cruise for the midshipmen of Algerian Navy. The ship docked Soummam yesterday the port of Istanbul (Turkey), said Wednesday the Ministry of National Defense said in a... Continue Reading →
Photos From Breeze 2013 Exercise
Mr. Nikolay Zlatev who creates the very informative blog Sea Dog, kindly shared his photos.
The Mediterranean Odyssey of TCG Heybeliada (Part 3)
The Turkish Milgem class corvette, F-511 TCG Heybeliada arrived in Durrës Albania today for a 3 day visit. Albania is her last visit before returning to home. TCG Heybeliada visited Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia before. According to Albanian Military Forces announcement the Albanian Chief of General Staff General Xhemal Gjunkshi, and the Commander of... Continue Reading →
Turkish Warships In Istanbul
Two Turkish Kılıç class, missile armed fast attack boats are visiting Istanbul. They were open to public visit today and they will be open tomorrow too.
The Mediterranean Cruise of TCG Heybeliada
The first indigenous warship of Turkish Navy, the Ada class F-511 TCG Heybeliada will arrive in Tripoli, Libya tomorrow for an official visit. Turkish Navy did not shared the duration of the port visit but there will be a press conference on board on Monday. In 2010 Turkish Navy organised a task force of four... Continue Reading →
