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Before the opening of the deep water docking facilities at Changi Naval Base - most foreign naval vessels on friendly visits to Singapore will be anchored at the Eastern Anchorage that is an area off the East Coast Parkway area.
Up until the late 1990s, when driving along the highest level of the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, one could see the big flat tops - and its accompanying escort vessels - from the US Navy anchored off the East Coast Parkway.
Nowadays, all naval vessels from other countries that are allowed to enter Singapore ports will sail directly to Changi.
With the Singapore shorelines being extended through land reclamation, the surface water area between the shore lines and the international sea boundary has reduced remarkably, and has resulted in this surface area being packed with commercial ships anchored off-shore to wait in turn for berthing space at the PSA.
This has resulted in naval vessels sailing further south from the Singapore territorial waters - so as to avoid the commercial traffic in the tight waters that make up the Singapore harbor - causing a seeming drop in the passage of naval ship traffic through Singapore waters, and resulting in disappointments to avid ''naval ship'' watchers.
Has anyone seen any Singaporean submarines within the waters of Singapore, or making surface passage as it sail into the international waters in the South China Sea for training ?
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Originally posted by Obersturmfuhrer:
Just to assure you the eyes on the sea is still working. Just that there's nothing interesting since the last post for the other thread.
You missed the Abraham Lincoln battle-group.And the Jap Murasame-class and one underway replenishment vessel.
So sad.....no pics.
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Before the opening of the deep water docking facilities at Changi Naval Base - most foreign naval vessels on friendly visits to Singapore will be anchored at the Eastern Anchorage that is an area off the East Coast Parkway area.
Up until the late 1990s, when driving along the highest level of the Benjamin Sheares Bridge, one could see the big flat tops - and its accompanying escort vessels - from the US Navy anchored off the East Coast Parkway.
Nowadays, all naval vessels from other countries that are allowed to enter Singapore ports will sail directly to Changi.
With the Singapore shorelines being extended through land reclamation, the surface water area between the shore lines and the international sea boundary has reduced remarkably, and has resulted in this surface area being packed with commercial ships anchored off-shore to wait in turn for berthing space at the PSA.
This has resulted in naval vessels sailing further south from the Singapore territorial waters - so as to avoid the commercial traffic in the tight waters that make up the Singapore harbor - causing a seeming drop in the passage of naval ship traffic through Singapore waters, and resulting in disappointments to avid ''naval ship'' watchers.
Has anyone seen any Singaporean submarines within the waters of Singapore, or making surface passage as it sail into the international waters in the South China Sea for training ?
Not entirely true.....from reading a blog by a USN destroyer, I learnt that the ship actually went down the shipping lines to give the junior officers a feel of one of the world's busiest waterway.
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Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:
You missed the Abraham Lincoln battle-group.And the Jap Murasame-class and one underway replenishment vessel.
So sad.....no pics.
Look, I still have a life. And it doesn't entail staring through a pair of binoculars 24-7. This is not even my job.
Originally posted by Bionic Animals:
You
have a new camera? The pictures posted are pretty sharp and
clear.
Same old camera, just a very nice bright sunny day.Edited by Obersturmfuhrer 03 May `08, 11:45PM
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Before the opening of the deep water docking facilities at Changi Naval Base - most foreign naval vessels on friendly visits to Singapore will be anchored at the Eastern Anchorage that is an area off the East Coast Parkway area.
With the Singapore shorelines being extended through land reclamation, the surface water area between the shore lines and the international sea boundary has reduced remarkably, and has resulted in this surface area being packed with commercial ships anchored off-shore to wait in turn for berthing space at the PSA.
This has resulted in naval vessels sailing further south from the Singapore territorial waters - so as to avoid the commercial traffic in the tight waters that make up the Singapore harbor - causing a seeming drop in the passage of naval ship traffic through Singapore waters, and resulting in disappointments to avid ''naval ship'' watchers.
The warships werent anchored at the eastern anchorage in the past. They were anchored at the man-of-war anchorage which was located north of the eastern anchorage off the coast of marina east (tanjong rhu). Currently Man of war anchorage had moved so they are no more there.
Naval vessels are making way far south of Singapore not because of the extending shoreline of Singapore but because they are using the traffic separation scheme for transit. The route via singapore from the malacca strait to the SCC vice versa is from the Malacca strait's TSS to the SCC's TSS vice versa so no point turning into our port waters for transit be it is congested or not.
Edited by foxtrout8 30 May `08, 12:24AM
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