Foreign Warship On Bosphorus 2015 (Part 30)

Alexander Otrakovski making her northbound passage. Photo: Yörük Işık. Used with permission.

Shaktar making her southbound passage after spending the last 5 months in the Black Sea. Photo: Yörük Işık. Used with permission.

On Friday in the early morning hours, the Russian Ropucha class large landing ship Alexander Otrakovski returned from her Syrian deployment. Her companion Alexander Shabalin was in Alexandria, Egypt for the Russian Egyptian joint naval exercise Friendship Bridge 2015.

On the same day later in the afternoon the tug Shaktar returned to the Mediterranean. She was in the Black Sea since mid January.

I have archived the list of the Russian warship movements in 2013 and the list of foreign warship movements in 2014.