Service
The Corvette was laid down on April 23, 1991 at the Leninska Kuznya shipyard. The ship was launched on March 15, 2002. The corvette was moved from Kiev to Mykolaiv. Some day later the Corvette was move again, this time to a port of Sevastopol for testing. During the trials was corvette 1,668 nmi (3,089 km). On February 15, 2006 an act was signed adding the ship to Ukrainian Navy. The Ukrainian naval flag was raised on the ship on February 16, 2006.
The first sea trip was the ship in late 2006 for NATO Mission Oriented Training/MОТ. Crew of Ukrainian corvette, in practice, carried out Active Endeavour tactical episodes. Between May 25 and July 2007 Ternipil took part in NATO Active Endeavour anti-terrorist operation.
In the future, Ternopil participated in Operation Active Endeavour regularly in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Read more about this topic: Ukrainian Corvette Ternopil (U209)
Famous quotes containing the word service:
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men’s necessities, while elsewhere she was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim’s shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Night City was like a deranged experiment in Social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone ... though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)