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:
“A man’s real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Service ... is love in action, love “made flesh”; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)
“Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or “broken heart,” is excuse for cutting off one’s life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)