Archive – The patrol boat ‘Serviola’
They had been accountable for monitoring the Russian frigate because it handed via waters “of nationwide curiosity” The Spanish ships adopted up and monitored the Russian frigate 417 Admiral Gorshkov. The operation started on Friday the thirteenth when the interception of the Russian ship 20 nm north of the Exclusive Economic Zone
The high-altitude patrol boat ‘Serviola’, the frigate ‘Méndez Núñez’ and a maritime patrol airplane adopted a Russian frigate that was navigating via waters “of nationwide curiosity” for 2 days final week.
Specifically, the Spanish ships adopted and monitored the Russian frigate 417 Admiral Gorshkov, which was crusing south via the English Channel. According to the Defense General Staff, it is a widespread process when ships from different nations navigate via waters of nationwide curiosity and is a part of the Permanent Surveillance and Dissuasion Operations.
The operation started on Friday the thirteenth when the Russian ship was intercepted 20 nm north of the Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (ZEE) and monitoring by the patrol boat started.
Until then, the Russian frigate had been tracked by the French frigate D656 Bretagne and, beforehand, by vessels from the assorted nations via whose waters the Russian frigate had sailed since leaving Russian waters.
That similar Friday, the frigate F-104 Méndez Núñez, which had gone out to sea from the Ferrol Arsenal on Thursday afternoon, the twelfth, took over from the P-71 Serviola to proceed monitoring the Russian ship so far as Portuguese waters.
This monitoring was handed over to the Portuguese authorities on Saturday, as it might have left our maritime space of curiosity. A D4 maritime surveillance airplane additionally carried out the situation and monitoring of the Russian ship.