The above photo shows a boat that is moving in high speed on Bosphorus. The photo was taken by Mr. Victor M.S. Barreira, on 8 june 2013. The boat in picture does not have the appearance of a pleasure craft for private use. It has as far as I can see both Turkish and Romanian... Continue Reading →
While the French, The Cypriots and the Turkish navies are busy in simulating searching and rescuing distressed people in the seas, the navies of the Black Sea countries are continuing the April 2013 activation the BlackSeaFor. Interestingly the ships of the BlackSeaFor task force did simulated a search and rescue operation in high sea among themselves. The excellent Black Sea News has a very good posting about... Continue Reading →
The warships participating in the April 2013 activation of the BlackSeaFor have arrived in Varna, Bulgaria for the event kick off. This is a video from Russian website tvzvezda.ru about the Russian participation, but many other ships are seen in the video too. Click here to watch the video
The warships of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will take part in the April 2013 activation of the BlackSeaFor between 5 and 23 of April. The warship of the BlackseaFor, under the Command of Turkish Navy, will spend 6 days on the sea and 13 days visiting Varna, Constanta and Sevastopol. During this... Continue Reading →
The Romanian frigate F-221 ROS Regele Ferdinand will be returning home shortly. She left Romania in mid September and sailed the seas off the coast of Somalia as a part of EU's anti piracy operation Atalanta. The crew from Romanian frigate ROS Regele Ferdinand are proud to be sailing home to their base port of... Continue Reading →
The Romanian frigate F-221 Regele Ferdinand left Constanta to join the EU anti piracy task force Atalanta. According to Romanian website Resboiu.ro this is the first participation of Romanian ships in anti-piracy operations. Last year the ship participated under NATO command in the Mediterranean Sea in Operation Active Endeavour and in Operation Unified Protector against Libya.... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, after the command handover ceremony in Gölcük Naval Base, the 5 ships participating to this activation of the BlackSeaFor sailed away to their next port of call Trabzon, Istanbul. In order to this they had to pass through Bosphorus, where I was expecting them, as you can see from the photos above.
The August activation of BlackSeaFor will start today with a ceremony in Gölcük Naval Base, Izmit, Turkey. The Russian Navy will hand over the command of the BlackSeaFor to Turkey. The activation of the BlackSeaFor will end on 24th August. During that time the task force will conduct several exercises and will visit Trabzon, Turkey and Novorossiysk, Russia. Number Name... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, when I have reported about the Sevastopol visit of the PLAN destroyer Quigdao, I have asked where the PLAN frigate Yantai have disappeared. Today she has appeared in Constanta, Romania for an official visit until 4th August 2012. This answers my question about the whereabout of the Chinese warships in the Black Sea. The replenishment... Continue Reading →
As I have reported earlier, the ships of the BlackSeafor fleet visited Istanbul between 20 and 23 April 2012. They were open to the public and I took the opportunity to visit them all. It was an interesting experience for me as I was able to compare different ships build by very different construction standards... Continue Reading →
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