Turkish Submarine Base
This is a corner of the Turkish Navy's Golcuk naval base in the Sea of Marmara and depicts how it looked in August 1982.
A variety of submarines are visible. On the far left are four Guppy-class submarines outboard of what was then the Turkish Navy's only Tang-class submarine, S343 Piri Reis.
On the other side of the pier from those submarines is what I think is a C107-class utility landing craft (LCU). Outboard of it is the A588 Umerbey, a fomer Bundesmarine Angeln-class cargo ship being used by the Turks as a submarine tender.
On the right of the image is a further pair of Guppy-class submarines, together with three much more modern Type 209s.
The naval base, town and region were devastated by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake on 17 August 1999; at least 7,000 people were killed in the town and surrounding area, amongst a total of up to 45,000 victims. The land along the line of the rupture was offset (moved sideways) by up to 5.7m!
Turkish Submarine Base
This is a corner of the Turkish Navy's Golcuk naval base in the Sea of Marmara and depicts how it looked in August 1982.
A variety of submarines are visible. On the far left are four Guppy-class submarines outboard of what was then the Turkish Navy's only Tang-class submarine, S343 Piri Reis.
On the other side of the pier from those submarines is what I think is a C107-class utility landing craft (LCU). Outboard of it is the A588 Umerbey, a fomer Bundesmarine Angeln-class cargo ship being used by the Turks as a submarine tender.
On the right of the image is a further pair of Guppy-class submarines, together with three much more modern Type 209s.
The naval base, town and region were devastated by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake on 17 August 1999; at least 7,000 people were killed in the town and surrounding area, amongst a total of up to 45,000 victims. The land along the line of the rupture was offset (moved sideways) by up to 5.7m!