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 →
On 18 March,we have celebrated the victory of against the Allied Fleet in 1915. I am honored and delighted to share some of the excellent photos Mr. Ahmet Güven, a very dear contributor to these blog before shared these beautiful photos.
Today on 19 March 2014, in the early morning hours, one Turkish Type 209 / 1400 class submarine sailed through Bosphorus to Marmara Sea. I want to hope that she has spent very busy days back in the Black Sea monitoring all the naval traffic and gathering intelligence. Since Turkish Navy stopped painting the pennant number... Continue Reading →
The flagship of the Ukrainian Navy, the Krivak III (Project 1135.1) class frigate Hetman Sahaidachny passed through the Turkish Straits today and is now in the Black Sea. I have no information about her destination. It can be Sevastopol or Odessa. We will know better tomorrow. The ship was doing anti piracy operations first with the CTF-151 and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday, the creation of Barbaros Task Force was made public in a press conference held at the Fleet HQ in Gölcük Naval Base. This task force (TF) consisting of the frigates F-495 TCG Gediz, F-245 TCG Oruçreis, the corvette F-511 TCG Heybeliada and the replenishment tanker A-595 TCG Yarbay Kudret Güngör. The TF will set... Continue Reading →
The Dost class OPV of Turkish Coast Guard and one unidentified Turkish submarine were seen passing through the Bosphorus on 21 January 2013.
Turkish Navy announced today that 20 mines from World War 1 and World War 2 has been found in Northern and Central Aegean and destroyed by Turkish mine hunters. These mines were destroyed in two separate occasions, on 30 November - 1 December 2013 and on 13 - 15 January 2014. Every year, mines from World... Continue Reading →
It has been a while since I have last updated the order of battle for Turkish Navy. Here is the current one, as of January 2014: Active Building Planned Submarines (Note-1) 14 1 5 Frigates 16 Corvettes 8 1 1 Fast Attack Craft – Missile (Note-2) 25 4 Patrol Craft 30 4 Minehunters/sweepers (Note-3) 19... Continue Reading →
A video showing the capsizing of the tug TCG Değirmedere has been published on the internet. This video contradicts many facts of the news story I have based my reporting earlier: apparently there is no order to abandon the ship, the trying to balance the ship. Everything happens to quickly and I hate to say... Continue Reading →
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