Warships in the Straits of Singapore (2)
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Original thread expired due to lack of activity. Here's one today. The ANZAC class frigate HMNZS Te Mana (F111).
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Welcome back!
On Mon (28 April), I saw a SH-2 SeaSprite flying away (from the direction of PLA). Wondered is this chopper attached to the above ship?
P/s 1st time I saw a SeaSprite! haha
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Welcome back
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Just to assure you the eyes on the sea is still working. Just that there's nothing interesting since the last post for the other thread.
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Before the opening of the deep water docking facilities at Changi Naval Base - most foreign naval vessels on friendly visits to Singapore will be anchored at the Eastern Anchorage that is an area off the East Coast Parkway area.
Up until the late 1990s, when driving along the highest level of the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, one could see the big flat tops - and its accompanying escort vessels - from the US Navy anchored off the East Coast Parkway.
Nowadays, all naval vessels from other countries that are allowed to enter Singapore ports will sail directly to Changi.
With the Singapore shorelines being extended through land reclamation, the surface water area between the shore lines and the international sea boundary has reduced remarkably, and has resulted in this surface area being packed with commercial ships anchored off-shore to wait in turn for berthing space at the PSA.
This has resulted in naval vessels sailing further south from the Singapore territorial waters - so as to avoid the commercial traffic in the tight waters that make up the Singapore harbor - causing a seeming drop in the passage of naval ship traffic through Singapore waters, and resulting in disappointments to avid ''naval ship'' watchers.
Has anyone seen any Singaporean submarines within the waters of Singapore, or making surface passage as it sail into the international waters in the South China Sea for training ?
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Submarines are notoriously hard to spot unless one is actually looking or has radar equipment to track them.
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2 Indian Naval vessels today:
Jyoti class Replenishment tanker INS Jyoti (A58)
Rajput class Destroyer INS Rana (D52)
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Originally posted by Obersturmfuhrer:
Just to assure you the eyes on the sea is still working. Just that there's nothing interesting since the last post for the other thread.
You missed the Abraham Lincoln battle-group.And the Jap Murasame-class and one underway replenishment vessel.
So sad.....no pics.
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You have a new camera? The pictures posted are pretty sharp and clear. -
Originally posted by Atobe:
Before the opening of the deep water docking facilities at Changi Naval Base - most foreign naval vessels on friendly visits to Singapore will be anchored at the Eastern Anchorage that is an area off the East Coast Parkway area.
Up until the late 1990s, when driving along the highest level of the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, one could see the big flat tops - and its accompanying escort vessels - from the US Navy anchored off the East Coast Parkway.
Nowadays, all naval vessels from other countries that are allowed to enter Singapore ports will sail directly to Changi.
With the Singapore shorelines being extended through land reclamation, the surface water area between the shore lines and the international sea boundary has reduced remarkably, and has resulted in this surface area being packed with commercial ships anchored off-shore to wait in turn for berthing space at the PSA.
This has resulted in naval vessels sailing further south from the Singapore territorial waters - so as to avoid the commercial traffic in the tight waters that make up the Singapore harbor - causing a seeming drop in the passage of naval ship traffic through Singapore waters, and resulting in disappointments to avid ''naval ship'' watchers.
Has anyone seen any Singaporean submarines within the waters of Singapore, or making surface passage as it sail into the international waters in the South China Sea for training ?
Not entirely true.....from reading a blog by a USN destroyer, I learnt that the ship actually went down the shipping lines to give the junior officers a feel of one of the world's busiest waterway. -
Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
You missed the Abraham Lincoln battle-group.And the Jap Murasame-class and one underway replenishment vessel.
So sad.....no pics.
Look, I still have a life. And it doesn't entail staring through a pair of binoculars 24-7. This is not even my job.
Originally posted by Bionic Animals:You have a new camera? The pictures posted are pretty sharp and clear.
Same old camera, just a very nice bright sunny day. -
Originally posted by Obersturmfuhrer:
Look, I still have a life. And it doesn't entail staring through a pair of binoculars 24-7. This is not even my job.
Same old camera, just a very nice bright sunny day.
I never blamed you.....it's just......too bad for all of us here.
BTW, I do like your pics.
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obersturmfuhrer, you take thos pics just with the camera alone right? no magnification device included?
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Chill guys, just using some humour here.
Yeah, same ole digicam using just the zoom option.
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The USS Blue Ridge's in town!!
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The Canadian Forces Maritime Command's Halifax class Frigate, the HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337)
followed shortly by a Trafalgar class SSN, dun ask me why the RN is shadowing the Canadian MARCOM vessel :p
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quite a distance for the RN to appear in eh?
a visit to usn pacfleet for excercise perhaps? and subsequently proceeding to the gulf for duties? (quite hiong still)
the canadian MARCOM ship is based on which coast i wonder...? maybe also on its way to the gulf too?
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or as we hope.? conspiracy !
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Before the opening of the deep water docking facilities at Changi Naval Base - most foreign naval vessels on friendly visits to Singapore will be anchored at the Eastern Anchorage that is an area off the East Coast Parkway area.
With the Singapore shorelines being extended through land reclamation, the surface water area between the shore lines and the international sea boundary has reduced remarkably, and has resulted in this surface area being packed with commercial ships anchored off-shore to wait in turn for berthing space at the PSA.
This has resulted in naval vessels sailing further south from the Singapore territorial waters - so as to avoid the commercial traffic in the tight waters that make up the Singapore harbor - causing a seeming drop in the passage of naval ship traffic through Singapore waters, and resulting in disappointments to avid ''naval ship'' watchers.
The warships werent anchored at the eastern anchorage in the past. They were anchored at the man-of-war anchorage which was located north of the eastern anchorage off the coast of marina east (tanjong rhu). Currently Man of war anchorage had moved so they are no more there.
Naval vessels are making way far south of Singapore not because of the extending shoreline of Singapore but because they are using the traffic separation scheme for transit. The route via singapore from the malacca strait to the SCC vice versa is from the Malacca strait's TSS to the SCC's TSS vice versa so no point turning into our port waters for transit be it is congested or not.
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Apologies for the grainy pict but this is the best I can squeeze out of my handphone camera.
The USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO193) yesterday.
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Arleigh Burke-class AEGIS Destroyers
USS Benfold (DDG 65)
USS Halsey (DDG 97)
and the Ticonderoga-class Cruiser USS Cape St George (CG 71)
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This group came with USS Peleliu (LHA-5).
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And upon a closer look, USS Halsey's smoke funnels appear to be buried inside the superstructure unlike the other Arleigh Burkes.
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Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
And upon a closer look, USS Halsey's smoke funnels appear to be buried inside the superstructure unlike the other Arleigh Burkes.
From DDG89 USS Mustin onwards, the arleigh bruke class will feature the submerge funnels to improve their signature. -
Originally posted by foxtrout8:
From DDG89 USS Mustin onwards, the arleigh bruke class will feature the submerge funnels to improve their signature.Thanks for the info!
This is the first time I've seen such an Arleigh Burke.
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The USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO193) makes another pass by today
while the USS Patriot (MCM 7) was spotted conducting some underwater operations (indicated by the navigational sign of a ball, diamond, ball hung on her mast) at Raffles Reserve.
