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)
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